Status:
COMPLETED
Testing the Effectiveness of Telephone Support for Dementia Caregivers
Lead Sponsor:
US Department of Veterans Affairs
Conditions:
Dementia
Alzheimer Disease
Eligibility:
All Genders
21+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The primary goal of the study is documentation of effectiveness of telephone support groups to reduce caregiver burden and stress. Caregivers who participate in intervention (Telephone Support) should...
Detailed Description
Background: Caregiving can severely limit caregivers' lives. In order to keep their family member at home, dementia caregivers often experience physical and psychological strain, social isolation, los...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Caregiver
- Age: 21 years or older
- Family member of the care recipient
- Must live with care recipient or share cooking facilities
- Must have a telephone
- Must plan to remain in the area for the duration of the intervention and follow-up
- Caregiver role for more than 6 months
- Must provide an average of 4 hours of supervision or direct assistance per day for the care recipient
- Risk Screening Tool: must have a total score of at least 1 for question 36, and a total of at least 2 for questions 38-40 (on the Screening Form)
- Care Recipient
- NINCDS (MD diagnosis) or cognitive impairment (raw score on MMSE of 23 or less)
- Must be a Veteran with dementia or being cared for by a Veteran who receives services at the Memphis VAMC
Exclusion
- Caregiver
- Active treatment (chemotherapy; radiation therapy) for cancer
- Imminent placement of care recipient into a nursing home (within 6 months)
- SPMSQ: \> 4 errors
- Care Recipient
- History of Parkinson's Disease or a stroke with no reported decline in memory over the past year
- Active treatment (chemotherapy or radiation therapy) for cancer
- More than three acute medical hospitalizations in the past year (other than psychiatric or Alzheimer's Disease related admissions)
- Schizophrenia (onset of delusions before age 45) or other severe mental illness
- Dementia secondary to head trauma (probable)
- Blindness or deafness if either disability prohibits them from data collection or participation in the interventions
- MMSE = 0 and Bedbound (routinely confined to bed or chair for at least 22 hours a day, for at least 4 of the last 7 days)
- Planned nursing home admission in 6 months
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
February 1 2005
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
January 1 2014
Estimated Enrollment :
154 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00119561
Start Date
February 1 2005
End Date
January 1 2014
Last Update
April 7 2015
Active Locations (1)
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Memphis VA Medical Center, Memphis, TN
Memphis, Tennessee, United States, 38104