Caregiving Networks Across Disease Context and the Life Course

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

2800 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-09-08

Study Completion Date

2030-12-31

Brief Summary

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Background:

In the U.S., about 53 million informal, unpaid caregivers provide care to a person who is ill, is disabled, or has age-related loss of function. These caregivers may be adult children, spouses, parents, or others. The stress of providing long-term care affects caregivers health and well-being. Researchers want to learn more about this stress and its effects.

Objective:

To learn how the caregiving process affects the health and well-being of caregivers over time.

Eligibility:

Adults aged 18 years and older who are caregivers for a person with a chronic medical condition and who have already given consent to take part in other study activities.

Design:

Participants will be put in different groups. They will complete some or all of the following tasks over 1 year. They may repeat these tasks once a year for up to 5 years.

Participants will fill out 2 online surveys. One will ask about their health and their caregiving experience. The other will ask them to list people in their social network and their care recipient s social network who give them support.

Participants will have a 2-part phone interview. It will be audio recorded. In part 1, they will be asked about the people they listed in the survey. In part 2, they will be asked about their caregiving experience and events in the care recipient s life.

Participants may fill out a weeklong diary every 3 months. It will ask about their daily social activities, well-being, and stress levels. It will also ask about their thoughts and feelings about caregiving.

Participants may give a blood sample each year they are in the study.

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Detailed Description

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Study Description: Caregivers will be invited to participate in surveys and interviews to assess their cognitions and emotions about caregiving, caregiving burden, and caregiving or support network systems during the life of the Care Recipient. The study will also include a bereavement component, in which families who have experienced the death of a Care Recipient may choose to participate. In addition, biomarkers may be evaluated in consenting individuals to assess genetic susceptibility to stress and stress-related dysregulations in the endocrine and immune systems.

Objectives: The primary objective of this study is to investigate the natural history of family caregiver stress over time, providing opportunity to understand the social, psychological, behavioral, and biological factors that characterize caregivers response to long-term caregiving during the life and after death of a Care Recipient with a chronic medical condition.

Endpoints: To assess the change over time in terms of social, psychological, behavioral, and biological factors associated with caregiving.

Conditions

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Inherited Metabolic Disorders Undiagnosed Diseases Batten's Disease Tay Sachs Diabetes

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

FAMILY_BASED

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Active

Participants include individuals who are caregivers of an individual with a chronic medical condition, OR individuals who support caregivers of an individual with a chronic medical condition.

No interventions assigned to this group

Bereaved

Participants include individuals who were caregivers of an individual with a chronic medical condition who has died, OR individuals who support the caregiver.

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

To be eligible to participate in this study, an individual must meet all of the following criteria:

* Adults aged 18 years and older
* If the Care Recipient is living, they must self-identify as a primary caregiver to the Care Recipient (individual with a chronic medical condition), OR if the Care Recipient is deceased, they must self-identify as having been a primary caregiver to the now-deceased Care Recipient, OR they must otherwise be identified (i.e., referred) by a participant as a part of the caregiving network
* Ability to consent to research
* Fluency in English will be needed to complete interview as well as to read, comprehend surveys and consent forms, as appropriate validated measures in other languages are not readily available.
* Physically capable of participating in applicable assessments

Exclusion Criteria

An individual who meets any of the following criteria will be excluded from this study:

* Care Recipients (as defined in this protocol)
* Staff of NHGRI

Staff of NHGRI are unable to participate in this study as a safeguard against the risk of ethical concerns. As per OHSRP SOP 404, NIH staff may be a vulnerable class of study subjects. Excluding staff of the Institute conducting the study assures there will not be any perceived or actual conflict of interest, pressure/coercion to participate among co-workers, subordinates, work unit-members, etc. As further noted in OHSRP SOP 404, exclusion further protects this class of subjects privacy and confidentiality; and protects the study s scientific integrity.

Persons with impaired neuro-sensory or decision-making ability (adults unable to provide consent) will not be enrolled in the study. Persons with impaired neuro-sensory or decision making ability would not be able to participate with independent responses to the various social behavioral measures we use in the study interview and survey. Learning information about these individuals through other people instead of themselves would introduce bias to this study.

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

100 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes