NCT07145723

Supporting Care Partners' Well-Being With Artificial Intelligence (AI) Chatbots

Supporting Care Partners' Well-Being With AI Chatbots: A Feasibility and Acceptability Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 26 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Michigan · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is being completed to test an AI therapy chatbot application called Earkick to see whether it is feasible and acceptable in supporting care partners who support individuals living with dementia.

Conditions

• Caregivers

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Earkick app	Participants will have a baseline visit followed by an 8-week home monitoring period (HMP) using the Earkick app. The Earkick app will interact with a mental health chatbot. Participants will complete online surveys at the midpoint (4 weeks) and end (8 weeks) of the HMP. Participants will choose one mental health-related topic to focus on from weeks 1-4 and one physical health-related topic to focus on from weeks 5-8. Additionally, participants will have a post-HMP interview over Zoom.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-09-22
• Primary completion: 2026-01-23
• Completion: 2026-02-04
• First posted: 2025-08-28
• Last updated: 2026-04-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States