NCT04969796

REACH Hope Intervention for Dementia and TBI Caregivers

Supporting Caregivers of Veterans With TBI and Mixed Dementia: The REACH Hope Behavioral Intervention

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 110 (actual)
• Sponsor: Memphis VA Medical Center · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This three-year randomized clinical trial will evaluate a behavioral intervention for caregivers of Veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and Alzheimer's dementia or mixed Dementia (AD/MD) to reduce caregiver depression, anxiety and burden, and improve veterans' health management. The study will combine and deliver two award-winning behavioral interventions - REACH VA (Resources for Enhancing All Caregivers Health in Department of Veterans Affairs) and the DoD's Virtual Hope Box, which we call REACH Hope. Both REACH and Hope Box have evidence of effectiveness individually but have not been delivered together for caregivers supporting veterans with complex neurodegenerative diagnoses and health conditions. Our primary hypothesis is that REACH Hope will improve caregivers' quality of life as measured by reduced burden.

Conditions

• Dementia, Mixed
• Dementia of Alzheimer Type
• TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	REACH Hope	REACH VA (Resources for Enhancing All Caregivers Health in Department of Veterans Affairs) and the DoD's Virtual Hope Box. For REACH Hope, as the caregiver and interventionist work on strategies one-on-one, these will be integrated into the Hope Box for the caregiver to use between and after sessions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-02-02
• Primary completion: 2023-08-01
• Completion: 2023-08-14
• First posted: 2021-07-21
• Last updated: 2023-03-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States