NCT04060355

Savvy System Project

Developing a Distance Education System to Train Savvy Caregiver Program Interventionists: Extending Access and Capacity in Community-Based Delivery of Evidence-Based Interventions

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: Emory University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study goal is to develop a web-based system that uses distance education methods and provides manuals and protocols to train, certify, and monitor the performance of interventionists to deliver the Savvy Caregiver program (Savvy), an evidence-based dementia family caregiver psychoeducation program. The system has a potential to increase the scalability of Savvy.

Detailed description

The number of People Living With Disability (PLWD) in the U.S. will rise from 5.7 million to 14 million by 2050, and the number of family caregivers who maintain these persons in the community will rise proportionately from 15 million at present. Several psychoeducation programs, including Savvy, have successfully ameliorated the adverse effects of caregiving, but these programs are only minimally available and accessible. The study goal is to develop a web-based system that uses distance education methods and provides manuals and protocols to train, certify, and monitor the performance of interventionists to deliver the Savvy Caregiver program (Savvy), an evidence-based dementia family caregiver psychoeducation program. The system has a potential to increase the scalability of Savvy.

Conditions

• Caregiver Burnout
• Dementia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Savvy program	Caregiver program (Savvy) is an evidence-based dementia family caregiver psychoeducation program. Provided to groups of 8-12 (typically) individuals caring for family members living with Alzheimer's disease or related dementias (PLWD), Savvy employs a mechanism of action based in Social Cognitive theory to promote caregivers' solution-focused coping behaviors through the acquisition of appropriate knowledge, skills, and outlook and the enhancement of caregiving mastery.
BEHAVIORAL	Semi-structured video interviews	Semi-structured video interviews will assess the preliminary efficacy of programs led by system-trained interventionists in producing anticipated outcomes in caregiver participants - reduced depression and burden and enhanced caregiving mastery. It will also focus on sense of the completeness and adequacy of the training program, including the training methods, videos, and materials

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-08-04
• Primary completion: 2023-10-31
• Completion: 2023-10-31
• First posted: 2019-08-19
• Last updated: 2024-12-30
• Results posted: 2024-12-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States