NCT00735800

Telephone Support for Dementia Caregivers

Psychosocial Telephone Intervention for Dementia Caregivers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 250 (actual)
• Sponsor: Rhode Island Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 50 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Caring for a patient with dementia is associated with increased feelings of burden and depression. The proposed study will examine the efficacy of Family Intervention: Telephone Tracking - Dementia (FITT-Dementia), a multi-component, family-based, telephone intervention, as a tool to reduce caregiver stress.

Detailed description

A previous pilot study of this approach showed reduced burden and reaction to memory and behavior problems for dementia caregivers. This study will test the intervention in a larger group of caregivers and have a more detailed analysis of outcomes. The caregiver of a person with dementia will receive telephone support calls. They will receive telephone calls from a trained member of the research team. These calls will occur over a six-month period and will be scheduled at a time that is convenient for the caregiver. They will receive a total of 16 calls over 6 months. During each call, the support person will discuss their current caregiving situation and provide various forms of support.

Conditions

• Dementia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Family Intervention:Telephone Tracking Support- Caregiver	Family-based problem solving treatment
BEHAVIORAL	Telephone Support	Supportive telephone counseling about caregiving

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-02-01
• Primary completion: 2013-05-01
• Completion: 2013-05-01
• First posted: 2008-08-15
• Last updated: 2015-05-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States