NCT05012410

WeCareAdvisor Study for Caregivers of People Living With Dementia

Efficacy of the WeCareAdvisor: An Online Tool to Help Caregivers Manage Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms in Persons Living With Dementia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 262 (actual)
• Sponsor: Drexel University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The WeCareAdvisor is an online tool to help caregivers manage behavioral and psychological symptoms of people living with dementia. The trial will evaluate its efficacy to reduce caregiver distress, improve confidence managing behaviors, as well as reduce occurrences and severity of behavioral and psychological symptoms. Visit https://wecareadvisorstudy.com/ for more information.

Detailed description

Caregivers enrolled in the study will use the web-based WeCareAdvisor tool for either three or six months, depending upon group allocation (immediate treatment vs. 3-month waitlist). Caregivers will be interviewed at baseline, 1, 3 and 6 months by telephone to evaluate their health and wellbeing. Also, utilization data of the tool will be captured.

Conditions

• Dementia
• Caregiver Burnout
• Caregiver Stress Syndrome
• Alzheimer Disease
• Frontotemporal Dementia
• Vascular Dementia
• Dementia With Lewy Bodies

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Immediate treatment group with High-Intensity Prompts	Caregivers in the immediate treatment group with high-intensity prompts will use the WeCareAdvisor tool for 6 months. Caregivers will receive telephone and email prompts to use the tool.
BEHAVIORAL	Immediate treatment group with Low-Intensity Prompts	Caregivers in the immediate treatment group with low-intensity prompts will use the WeCareAdvisor tool for 6 months. Caregivers will receive email prompts to use the tool.
BEHAVIORAL	Waitlist Control after three months with High-Intensity Prompts	After 3 months, caregivers will use the WeCareAdvisor tool for 3 months. Caregivers will receive telephone and email prompts. Once the caregiver receives the WeCareAdvisor tool, they will receive a weekly automated email as well as a weekly telephone call from study staff to prompt them to use the tool.
BEHAVIORAL	Waitlist Control after three months with Low-Intensity Prompts	After 3 months, caregivers will use the WeCareAdvisor tool for 3 months. Caregivers will receive email prompts.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-12-13
• Primary completion: 2024-07-19
• Completion: 2024-07-19
• First posted: 2021-08-19
• Last updated: 2025-09-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States