Powerful Tools for Caregivers of Dementia Patients



Status:Active, not recruiting
Conditions:Alzheimer Disease, Neurology
Therapuetic Areas:Neurology
Healthy:No
Age Range:18 - Any
Updated:8/23/2018
Start Date:February 2016
End Date:February 2019

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Trial Summary
Trial Overview
Inclusion Criteria

Optimization of "Powerful Tools for Caregivers" of Dementia Patients

The purpose of this study is to examine if a psycho-educational intervention for caregivers
of patients with dementia will decrease caregiver burden, increase caregiver physical
activity, and decrease the reporting of behavioral and psychological symptoms of the person
with dementia.


Inclusion Criteria:

- Caregiver lives with or provides care for the care recipient for an average of at
least 4 hours per day.

- Care for an individual with a physician diagnosis of dementia (mild to moderate stage
of dementia).

- Care for a care recipient who experiences behavioral symptoms that bother or upset the
caregiver moderately, very much, or extremely. The occurrence of problematic behaviors
and caregivers' reactions will be assessed with 6-items adapted from the Revised
Memory and Behavior Problems Checklist (Teri et al 1992).

Exclusion Criteria:

- Care for a care recipient who is bed-bound or has advanced dementia: Functional
Assessment Staging (FAST)(Sclan & Reisberg 1992) stage 7.

- Caregiver's cognitive, hearing, visual, or other physical impairments lead to
difficulty with informed consent process, assessment, or participation in the
intervention.

- Caregiver who is involved in another trial that addresses caregiver burden or
behavioral expressions.
We found this trial at
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Florida State University College of Medicine
Room 6100C UCC, 296 Champions Way,
Tallahassee, Florida 32306
Principal Investigator: Antonio Terracciano, PhD
Phone: 850-644-5619
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