NCT05098652

Coaching Dementia Caregivers to Master Care-Resistant Behavior

Coaching Dementia Caregivers to Master Care-Resistant Behavior and Improve Coping Strategies

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 266 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Alabama at Birmingham · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 95 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

266 family caregivers will be randomly assigned to either immediate intervention or delayed intervention groups. All caregivers will complete baseline surveys and 3 weeks of daily diaries. The immediate intervention group will receive 12 weeks of CuRB-IT. They will complete 3 rounds of 3-week daily diaries followed by an intermittent survey at 12 week intervals for the next 33 weeks. The delayed intervention group will receive 12 weeks of attention, complete 1 round of 3-week daily diaries followed by an intermittent survey, then complete 12 weeks of CuRB-IT, and complete 2 rounds of 3--week daily diaries followed by an intermittent survey at 12-week intervals for the next 18 weeks.

Detailed description

The purposes of the delayed-intervention randomized clinical trial (N=266) are to: Care-Resistant Behavior Internet Training (CuRB-IT). 1. examine the efficacy of CuRB-IT in increasing the self-efficacy of family caregivers of persons living with dementia to handle care-resistant behaviors (CRB); 2. further test the efficacy of CuRB-IT in improving caregivers coping strategies (a) among the experimental (immediate-intervention group) as compared to the control (delayed-intervention group) (between groups) and (b) within-person from pre- to post- intervention; 3. examine intervention decay at 3- and 6-months post intervention to determine performance of intervention and inform scheduling of booster sessions; 4. assess the efficacy of the CuRB-IT intervention in preventing onset of poor coping strategies by family caregivers; 5. test the hypothesized mechanism of action that increased CRB self-efficacy and use of CuRB-IT problem-focused coping strategies mediate the relationship between CRB stress appraisal and caregiving activities.

Conditions

• Care-resistant Behavior
• Dementia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	CuRB-IT	9 1-hour coaching sessions delivered over a videoconferencing platform (Zoom); 6 delivered weekly, 3 delivered biweekly

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-04-01
• Primary completion: 2027-08-31
• Completion: 2027-09-30
• First posted: 2021-10-28
• Last updated: 2025-04-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States