Stress Reduction Study for Partners of Early Stage Dementia

Yale University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dementia Caregiving

Treatments: Behavioral: Wish Outcome Obstacle Plan

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT03691428

2000021852

R21AG055861-01A1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a study designed to pilot a WOOP (Wish Outcome Obstacle Plan) intervention for spouses of persons with early stage dementia for the purposes of future research. The investigators will be using two cohorts. One who will get the intervention and the other who will be wait listed and receive the intervention at a later date. Spouses of persons with dementia will use WOOP, a brief goal attainment sequence, every day for 16 days. Participants will complete surveys before the intervention, at Day 16, and at a 3-month follow-up. The outcome measures are goal attainment, emotion regulation skills, psychological health, and support quality. As of 9/2020 this entire study is being conducted remotely.

Enrollment: 90 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria:

• The couple is married or in a cohabiting, committed relationship.
• One partner has early Adult Dementia (AD) or a related dementia using criteria: symptoms consistent with early-stage dementia or memory impairment (e.g., AD, vascular dementia) and scores on the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) ≥3; Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) ≥18 and ≤27; and Barthel Index (BI) ≥5 and ≤1923. Or>20 on Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status. (TICS)
• The spouse will have to score 27 or higher on the MMSE. Or>25 on TICS.
• Both participants must agree to participate and complete baseline interviews.
• Both partners are at least 60 years old.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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90 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Wish Outcome Obstacle Plan

Wait-list

Other group

Description:

Participants will get the WOOP training after the last outcome assessment.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Wish Outcome Obstacle Plan