NCT03123224

The COACH Project: Combined Online Assistance for Caregiver Health

Combined Online Assistance for Caregiver Health (COACH): The Efficacy of a Combined Physical Activity and Coping Skills Training Intervention for Caregivers

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the effect of a physical exercise + caregiver skills training on feelings of burden, mood, and biological markers of inflammation in persons who provide care for Veterans with a TBI or dementia. Half of the caregivers will participate in a balance and flexibility + caregiver skills training program, while the other half will participate in a moderate/high intensity aerobic and resistance + caregiver skills training program.

Conditions

• Traumas, Brain
• Alzheimer Disease
• Dementia
• Head Injury
• Concussion, Brain
• TBI

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Combined Aerobic and Resistance Exercise + Caregiver Skills Training	The combined moderate to high intensity combined aerobic and resistance exercise training + skills training group consists of six months of physical exercise + caregiver skills training followed by an additional six months of follow-up for a total study duration of twelve months. All aspects of these combined interventions will be delivered through mobile technology thus obviating some of the obstacles to caregivers face in meeting their own needs. Caregivers will be provided with study issued equipment (e.g., exercise equipment, activity monitoring devices, and tablets) to complete all elements of the intervention.
BEHAVIORAL	Stretching Balance and Flexibility + Caregiver Skills Training	The stretching, balance and flexibility training + skills training group consists of six months of physical exercise + caregiver skills training followed by an additional six months of follow-up for a total study duration of twelve months. All aspects of these combined interventions will be delivered through mobile technology thus obviating some of the obstacles to caregivers face in meeting their own needs. Caregivers will be provided with study issued equipment (e.g., exercise equipment, activity monitoring devices, and tablets) to complete all elements of the intervention.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-08-01
• Primary completion: 2018-07-01
• Completion: 2018-07-01
• First posted: 2017-04-21
• Last updated: 2018-01-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States