Status:
COMPLETED
Tele-Mindfulness for Dementia's Family Caregivers: a Randomized Trial With a Usual Care Control Group
Lead Sponsor:
Mount Sinai Hospital, Canada
Conditions:
Caregivers
Mindfulness
Eligibility:
All Genders
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Family caregivers were recruited through a combinations of strategies including a larger caregiving project and its partners, memory clinics, community outreach, online advertisement, flyers and broch...
Detailed Description
Intervention (tele-MBCT) group Tele-MBCT was an 8-week program delivered to participants online via a videoconferencing program called Zoom. Zoom is an Ontario Personal Health Information Act (PHIPA) ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Self-identification as a caregiver for a family member diagnosed with any type of dementia
- English literacy
- Access to a home computer connected to the Internet
- Basic familiarity with using a computer (the ability to check email and download files)
- Score at least 3 on the Single-item measure of self-perceived stress
- Agree to not engage in any formal community-based caregiver support programs, mind-body programs, or psychotherapy until they have completed training and follow-up evaluations
Exclusion
- Active suicidality and self-harm ideas
- Recent diagnosis of major depression, severe anxiety, psychosis, and bipolar disorder
- Active substance misuse
- Starting on a new psychotropic medication within three months prior to entry into the study
- Involved in formal, professionally led meditation, yoga, or tai chi programs in the previous year
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
October 5 2016
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
November 7 2017
Estimated Enrollment :
26 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT04416529
Start Date
October 5 2016
End Date
November 7 2017
Last Update
June 4 2020
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