CompletedNot Applicable

Improving Self-Care of Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia Caregivers

United States43 participantsStarted 2020-12-16

Plain-language summary

The research study is being conducted to evaluate the efficacy of a virtual support intervention to reduce stress and poor self-care for caregivers of persons with behavioral variant Frontotemporal Degeneration (bvFTD) compared to receiving health information alone.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Informal caregiver providing care at least 8 hours/week * Reporting poor self-care on screening (Health Self-Care Neglect Scale, score ≥ 2) * Able to complete the protocol, e.g., adequate vision and hearing, English speaking * Caregiver of a patient diagnosed bvFTD Exclusion Criteria: * Participation in another support randomized, controlled trial * Untreated major psychiatric illness (Use of anti-anxiety/anti-depressant medicines is acceptable and will be adjusted in analysis if group imbalance is identified.) * Caregiver with Cognitive Impairment based on Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICS) score \<25

What they're measuring

Change From Baseline in the Self-Care Inventory (SCI)

Timeframe: 6 months

Change From Baseline in Frontotemporal Dementia Rating Scale (FTDRS)

Timeframe: 6 months

Trial details

NCT IDNCT04686266

SponsorUniversity of Pennsylvania

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2021-11-03

Results submitted2022-11-02

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