NCT05334992

Improving Mental Health for Care Partners of Persons With AD/ADRD

Reducing Pre-Death Grief, Burden, and Stress in Informal Caregivers: A Group and Individual Therapy Approach

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Texas Tech University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 120 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The overarching goal of this project is to evaluate if evidence-based interventions can reduce PDG, burden, and stress in informal caregivers of individuals with dementia

Detailed description

Aim 1: Examine the effects of two individual evidence-based therapies for informal caregivers of dementia patients. Aim 2: Examine the effects of a modified evidence-based group therapy for informal caregivers of dementia patients.

Conditions

• Mental Health Issue
• Grief
• Burden, Caregiver

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy	Individual therapy 12 to 16 weeks
BEHAVIORAL	Behavior Activation	Individual therapy 12 to 16 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-02-01
• Primary completion: 2028-12-31
• Completion: 2028-12-31
• First posted: 2022-04-19
• Last updated: 2026-02-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States