NCT04861610

Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Caregivers of Frail Older Chinese Adults

Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Caregivers of Frail Older Chinese Adults: Testing an Intergenerational Caregiving Model

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 240 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This is study to investigate the effects of a brief mindfulness-based program for frail older adults caregivers.

Detailed description

The proposed study is a multi-site, three-arm randomized controlled trial of a mindfulness-based intervention for Chinese family caregivers in Hong Kong. Effects of the intervention will be compared with those of an evidence-based psychoeducation program, and treatment-as-usual. 240 caregivers of frail elderly with moderate to severe levels of frailty, will be recruited and randomly assigned to mindfulness-based intervention, psychoeducation, and treatment-as-usual experimental conditions. Overall program effectiveness will be analyzed on measures of caregiver burden, depression, anxiety, positive caregiving experience, spirituality, family conflict, and the biomarker of heart rate variability. Measures on coping styles, experiential avoidance, and self-efficacy will be explored to see if they mediate the changes to participant improvements in outcomes. 6-month follow-up will be included to investigate the maintenance effects.

Conditions

• Frailty
• Caregiver Burnout

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Brief mindfulness based program	An intervention promotes the acceptance and emotion regulation in caregiving for frail older adults
BEHAVIORAL	Psychoeducation	An intervention promotes the coping and problem solving in caregiving for the frail older adults

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-05-03
• Primary completion: 2024-03-30
• Completion: 2024-03-30
• First posted: 2021-04-27
• Last updated: 2024-03-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong