Telephone-coached "Graphic Narrative" Bibliotherapy for Dementia Caregivers

NCT ID: NCT06413849

Last Updated: 2025-04-09

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 128 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-12-01
• Study Completion Date: 2026-12-31

Brief Summary

This study aims to assess the efficacy of telephone-coached graphic narrative bibliotherapy in improving dementia caregiver depressive symptoms compared with the booklet group.

Detailed Description

This is a two-arm cluster randomized controlled trial using a repeated-measures design to examine the effects of telephone-coached graphic narrative bibliotherapy on 128 (64 per group) informal caregivers of people with dementia. Participants in the intervention group will receive eight weekly telephone-coached graphic narrative bibliotherapy sessions, plus two face-to-face booster sessions and two follow-up sessions. The control group will receive an education booklet and check-in calls. Caregiver depressive symptoms, stress and anxiety, caregiving appraisal, care-recipient neuropsychiatric symptoms, and quality of life will be measured to test the intervention's effects immediately after completion and at a 6-month follow-up.

Conditions

Dementia Caregiver; Depressive Symptoms; Caregiving Appraisal

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Graphic narrative bibliotherapy

Eight weekly sessions of telephone-coached graphic narrative bibliotherapy

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Telephone coached graphic narrative bibliotherapy

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eight weekly sessions of telephone coached graphic narrative bibliotherapy

Control group

Reading an educational booklet

Group Type: SHAM_COMPARATOR

Control group

Intervention Type: OTHER

Reading educational booklet

Interventions

Telephone coached graphic narrative bibliotherapy

Eight weekly sessions of telephone coached graphic narrative bibliotherapy

Intervention Type: OTHER

Control group

Reading educational booklet

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• provide unpaid care to a person diagnosed with early to moderate stage dementia;
• provide at least 14 hours of care a week for at least 3 months
• aged 18 years or above
• able to read
• have depressive symptoms
• use a message application

Exclusion Criteria

• with an unstable physical or mental condition
• with cognitive impairment
• receiving medical, psychological, or psychiatric treatment for depression
• have been included in another interventional study

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Hong Kong SAR, , Hong Kong

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Hong Kong

Facility Contacts

Shanshan Wang

Role: primary

shan-shan.wang@polyu.edu.hk

27664696

Other Identifiers

P0047108

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id