Short-term Caregiver Psychotherapy

University of Rostock

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: Caregiver Burden of People With Dementia

Treatments: Behavioral: Psychotherapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02175953

RO020

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is to test the feasibility (pilot part) and efficacy (phase IIa part) of a specifically on the needs of caregivers of people with dementia composed new short-term psychotherapeutical intervention.

Full description

This prospective study will be offered to caregivers from the out patient clinic of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine of the University Rostock Medical Center. In a first pilot study with 10 participants without control group, we tested the feasability and acceptance of the program (completed 2/2015). From 4/2015 a phase IIa study started with 10 participants in the intervention group and 10 in the control groups (will be organized by waiting list). The program consists of two modules of caregiver education followed by ten psychotherapeutic group modules. Duration of each module is planned to be 90 minutes including a relaxation exercise at the end of each module. Primary outcomes are the feasibility, acceptance and the effect on caregiver burden.

Enrollment: 13 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• caregiver of a person with dementia
• willing to participate in all 12 modules of the program

Exclusion criteria

• current psychotherapy or antidepressive medication for less than 6 month
• major depression

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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13 participants in 2 patient groups

Interventiongroup

Experimental group

Description:

Psychotherapy

Treatment:

Behavioral: Psychotherapy

Waitling list group

No Intervention group

Description:

waiting list