Mobile Intervention for Mental Health of Family Caregivers in Thailand

Mass General Brigham

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Depressive Symptoms, Generalized Anxiety, or Psychological Stress

Treatments: Behavioral: Caregiver Mental Health Mobile Application Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT06722287

2023P001212

5R21MH131043-02 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of the R21 project is to develop a culturally informed Caregiver Mental Health Mobile Application program that will promote early detection of mental health problems and deliver an evidence-based self-care intervention for family caregivers providing care to adults with chronic disease in Thailand.

Full description

The goal of the 2-year R21 project is to develop a culturally informed Caregiver Mental Health Mobile Application (hereafter referred to as CAMMA) program that will deliver an evidence-based intervention to reduce mental health problems in family caregivers of adults with chronic disorders in Thailand. Specific aims include: 1) Conducting qualitative research on family caregivers of persons with chronic disorders, focusing on their experience with mental health problems, caregiving practice, coping mechanisms, and socio-technological barriers to technology acceptance and use; 2) Develop a mobile application for the delivery of the CAMMA intervention; and 3) Conduct a formative evaluation of the CAMMA Intervention Components to ensure acceptability and usability of individual intervention components.

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• adult (age 18 +) family caregiver (CG)
• has a minimum of 4 months of experience as a caregiver and provides at least 4 hours a day of care to the care recipient (CR);
• screen positive on depressive symptoms (score above 5 on PHQ-9), or generalized anxiety (score above 3 on GAD-2), or stress measured with Perceive Stress Scale (score above 6 on PPS-4)
• Access to a mobile device with internet access

Exclusion criteria

• Caregiver who refuses to provide informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

CAMMA Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Mobile application intervention that provides family caregivers with self-care tools, care management tools, and online support group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Caregiver Mental Health Mobile Application Intervention