Exploration of an Online Education Program to Support Caregivers' Knowledge Transfer

Texas Christian University

Status and phase: Enrolling; Phase 1

Conditions: Dementia

Treatments: Behavioral: Structured Retrieval Practice (SRP)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07377331

2024-153-4

Details and patient eligibility

About

The overarching goal of this work is to determine methods that improve caregiver education about the behavioral and psychological symptoms (BPSD) of dementia. The specific goal of this project is to extend our prior work to evaluate the impact of our educational intervention on caregivers' ability to transfer knowledge about the management of ADRD to real-world applied examples.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• informal caregivers
• 18+ years old
• Read and speak English
• free of cognitive impairments that prevent consent and/or completing experimental tasks
• remote participants need access to a tablet, laptop, or desktop computer to complete tasks.

Exclusion criteria

• professional caregivers
• former caregivers who are not currently caring for someone living with dementia
• caregivers providing assistance to someone with normal cognition

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 1 patient group

Within-participant design with 2 learning conditions: intervention and reading control

Experimental group

Description:

For each caregiver participant, half of the BPSD categories (i.e., 4) will be randomly assigned to the structured retrieval practice (SRP) intervention, and the other half will be randomly assigned to the restudy control condition.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Structured Retrieval Practice (SRP)