NCT04837937

Negotiation Training for Caregiver Communication in AD

Negotiation Training to Optimize Caregiver Communication in Alzheimer's Disease

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 132 (actual)
• Sponsor: Northwestern University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to design a Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (NDR) training intervention to improve communication and address resolution of conflicts that family caregivers of patients with cognitive impairment and/or Alzheimer's Disease (AD) frequently experience.

Detailed description

The goal of this study is to design a Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (NDR) training intervention to improve communication and address resolution of conflicts that family caregivers of patients with cognitive impairment and/or Alzheimer's Disease (AD) frequently experience. Specifically this study will: Aim 1: Employ a caregiver (user)-centered design approach to modify and tailor a negotiations and dispute resolution (NDR) training intervention to support communication skills of family caregivers of adults with AD. Aim 2: Utilizing Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST), conduct a randomized controlled trial of the NDR intervention that targets better communication between caregivers and health teams to determine the feasibility of delivering the intervention, and derive estimates of the effect of 3 intervention components on changes in patient-centered outcomes at post-intervention and follow-up. Exploratory Aim 3: Explore if intervention components (lectures/exercises) interact to change communication between caregivers and health care teams at post-intervention and follow-up.

Conditions

• Alzheimer Disease
• Cognitive Impairment

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Caregiver vs. Patient [Beginner]	Participants will be assigned a 'Caregiver vs. Patient' \[Beginner\] online negotiation exercise. All participants will complete this exercise, so it will serve as the constant.
BEHAVIORAL	Caregiver vs. Caregiver	Participants will be assigned a 'Caregiver vs. Caregiver' online negotiation exercise.
BEHAVIORAL	Caregiver vs. Physician	Participants will be assigned a 'Caregiver vs. Physician' online negotiation exercise.
BEHAVIORAL	Caregiver vs. Patient [Advanced]	Participants will be assigned a 'Caregiver vs. Patient \[Difficult\]' online negotiation exercise. This exercise is "advanced" compared to the constant since it involves negotiating more than one conflict.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-09-01
• Primary completion: 2024-04-20
• Completion: 2024-06-17
• First posted: 2021-04-08
• Last updated: 2025-08-01
• Results posted: 2025-08-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States