Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02418806
Group Therapy for Caregivers of Alzheimer's Disease Patients in Spanish Elderly Persons Centres
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 231 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Barcelonabeta Brain Research Center, Pasqual Maragall Foundation · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
An experimental study designed to test the effectiveness of a psychological intervention based on group therapy for the caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients. The intervention consists of 16 sessions of a cognitive-behavioral psychological group therapy. This study aims to demonstrate that Alzheimer's patients' caregivers can decrease the feelings of burden after been involved in a group therapy.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Psychotherapy groups | |
| BEHAVIORAL | Self-help groups |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2014-01-01
- Primary completion
- 2014-07-01
- Completion
- 2015-09-01
- First posted
- 2015-04-16
- Last updated
- 2016-01-20
Locations
11 sites across 1 country: Spain
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02418806. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.