NCT06413849

Telephone-coached "Graphic Narrative" Bibliotherapy for Dementia Caregivers

Telephone-coached "Graphic Narrative" Bibliotherapy for Informal Caregivers of People With Dementia

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 128 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to assess the efficacy of telephone-coached graphic narrative bibliotherapy in improving dementia caregiver depressive symptoms compared with the booklet group.

Detailed description

This is a two-arm cluster randomized controlled trial using a repeated-measures design to examine the effects of telephone-coached graphic narrative bibliotherapy on 128 (64 per group) informal caregivers of people with dementia. Participants in the intervention group will receive eight weekly telephone-coached graphic narrative bibliotherapy sessions, plus two face-to-face booster sessions and two follow-up sessions. The control group will receive an education booklet and check-in calls. Caregiver depressive symptoms, stress and anxiety, caregiving appraisal, care-recipient neuropsychiatric symptoms, and quality of life will be measured to test the intervention's effects immediately after completion and at a 6-month follow-up.

Conditions

• Dementia Caregiver
• Depressive Symptoms
• Caregiving Appraisal

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Telephone coached graphic narrative bibliotherapy	Eight weekly sessions of telephone coached graphic narrative bibliotherapy
OTHER	Control group	Reading educational booklet

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-12-01
• Primary completion: 2026-12-01
• Completion: 2026-12-01
• First posted: 2024-05-14
• Last updated: 2025-04-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong