NCT07208162

SHARE Adaptation Intervention for African-American Families

Adapting the SHARE for Dementia Early-Stage Dyadic Intervention: A Stage I Pilot Study With African-American Families

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This project aims to culturally adapt the SHARE program for African-Americans in early-moderate stage dementia and their care partner. Upon completion of the adaptation, a pilot randomized-control trial wil be confucted to compare the adaptaed SHARE program versus usual care.

Detailed description

Aim 1: Review SHARE for Dementia materials with an Advisory Committee (AC; 6-10 African Americans with lived experience and experts) to identify distinct needs of African American care dyads and culturally adapt SHARE using this input. Deliverables: Develop SHARE V1 Culturally tailored V1 SHARE Counselor Manual, V1 SHARE Guide for Families, and V1 SHARE Counselor training Aim 2: Conduct focus groups with African American care dyads (n=2 groups; n=10 dyads total, or until saturation) and community service provider staff (n= 2 groups; n=10, or until saturation) to identify strengths and limitations of the V1 SHARE materials, procedures, and protocols. Deliverables: SHARE for African Americans (Version 2;V2); Culturally tailored V2 SHARE Counselor Manual, V2 SHARE Guide for Families, and V2 SHARE Counselor training Aim 3: Train SHARE counselors (n=20) to implement V2 of SHARE. Aim 4: Examine: a) the acceptability and feasibility and; 2) preliminary efficacy of the culturally adapted V2 of SHARE in a fully powered trial with 120 African American care dyads.

Conditions

• Mild Dementia
• Moderate Dementia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	5+1 Adapted, early-stage dyadic care planning intervention	The intervention group will receive the adapted SHARE Dyadic program, consisting of five, 60-90-minute curriculum-guided sessions with a SHARE Counselor, plus one optional family session.
BEHAVIORAL	Counseling session and printed resources	Control group participants will receive a treatment as usual equivalent: a single, standardized educational and resource session with a packet of information.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-08-19
• Primary completion: 2026-03-30
• Completion: 2026-07-01
• First posted: 2025-10-06
• Last updated: 2025-10-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States