NCT03030027

Connecting Through Caregiving: Reappraising Intergeneration Relationships

Connecting Through Caregiving: Reappraising Intergeneration Relationships for Dementia Caregivers

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of the present study is to examine the effects of perspective-taking reappraisals on the well-being of adult-child dementia caregivers.

Detailed description

Dementia caregiving presents a particular challenge wherein the adult child is parenting his or her parents. Facilitating relational insights, the key components of the Connecting Through Caregiving (CTC) intervention involves the following: 1) enhancing self-awareness of the caregiver, 2) developing interpersonal empathy of the care-recipient, 3) help-seeking, 4) balancing self-care and caring for others and 5) negotiating action plans. The CTC intervention is be evaluated against a basic skill training intervention consisting of scheduling pleasant events, communicating with the care recipient and other family members. Dementia caregivers providing at least 14 hours of care per week to a parent living with dementia are recruited and randomized into one the two conditions. The intervention lasts for six weeks for both conditions. Intervention in the first week consists of a home visit and a telephone follow-up. From the second to fifth week, there are weekly four telephone phone sessions. In the sixth week, there were two more telephone calls to consolidate the intervention and to review implementation plans.

Conditions

• Dementia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Connecting Through Caregiving	The Connecting Through Caregiving intervention focuses on reappraisal exercises on intergeneration relationships in caregiving, involving the following: 1) enhancing self-awareness of the caregiver, 2) developing interpersonal empathy for the care-recipient, 3) help-seeking in caregiving, 4) balancing self-care and caring and 5) negotiating action plans.
OTHER	Basic Skills Building	Skill building involves: 1) monitoring activities, 2) pleasant event scheduling, 3) communicating with the care recipient, 4) communicating with family members and 5) review implementation

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-01-09
• Primary completion: 2020-12-31
• Completion: 2020-12-31
• First posted: 2017-01-24
• Last updated: 2019-04-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong