NCT04919070

Connect for Caregivers

'Connect for Caregivers' - Developing a Brief Intervention for Social Connectedness

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 5 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Rochester · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Connect for Caregivers is a intervention feasibility pilot study. The purpose of the study is to pilot test a newly developed single session behavioral intervention to help caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer's Disease or related dementias gain understanding of the importance of increasing social connectedness, awareness of their personal barriers to connectedness, and knowledge of local resources for promoting connectedness.

Detailed description

Connect for Caregivers is a intervention feasibility pilot study. We use a mixed methods approach to initiate the development and testing process for a single session behavioral intervention to help caregivers gain understanding of the importance of increasing connectedness, awareness of their personal barriers to connectedness, and knowledge of local resources for promoting connectedness. The intervention-"Connect 4 Caregivers"-has three components: 1) psychoeducational materials on the importance of connectedness for health and wellbeing; 2) a card sort-based 'discussion prioritization tool' that systematizes and routinizes the process of identifying and prioritizing barriers to connectedness; 3) personalized resources to address the identified barriers/targets. Aim 1 is to investigate whether Connect for Caregivers is associated with a signal for efficacy for changing connectedness by having n=5 caregivers complete the single session intervention and provide quantitative and qualitative data on their experience with the intervention and motivation to work on increasing their social connectedness (a signal for potential efficacy).

Conditions

• Social Isolation
• Loneliness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Connect for Caregivers	The intervention being studied is a single session guided behavioral intervention to improve social connectedness in caregivers of individuals with ADRD. The intervention, Connect for Caregivers, provides psychoeducation on the importance of social connectedness for health and well-being, includes a card-sort process to identify and prioritize barriers to connectedness, and provides personalized resources and strategies for caregivers to use to increase their social connectedness.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-06-28
• Primary completion: 2021-08-27
• Completion: 2021-08-27
• First posted: 2021-06-09
• Last updated: 2022-12-29
• Results posted: 2022-12-29

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States