Interventions for Parent Caregivers of Injured Military/Veteran Personnel
| Status: | Recruiting |
|---|---|
| Conditions: | Neurology, Psychiatric |
| Therapuetic Areas: | Neurology, Psychiatry / Psychology |
| Healthy: | No |
| Age Range: | Any |
| Updated: | 3/8/2019 |
| Start Date: | April 1, 2017 |
| End Date: | March 31, 2020 |
| Contact: | Carolyn Clark, MA |
| Email: | carolyn.clark3@va.gov |
| Phone: | 800-636-8262 |
This randomized clinical trial will test a behavioral caregiving intervention that has been
used successfully for dementia and spinal cord injury caregivers to provide services to
stressed and burdened parent caregivers of post 9/11 service members/veterans. This
intervention is six intensive individual sessions that will teach problem solving, cognitive
restructuring and stress reduction targeted to an individual assessment of the care dyad's
needs. It will be compared to another method of delivering content, education webinar
sessions, which are analogous to the usual standard of care and will function as an attention
control arm. The objective of the study is to determine which of these delivery mechanisms is
more effective at helping parent caregivers of injured post 9/11 returning troops to improve
their depression, anxiety, and burden, and to determine the feasibility of using individual
sessions with this population of caregivers.
used successfully for dementia and spinal cord injury caregivers to provide services to
stressed and burdened parent caregivers of post 9/11 service members/veterans. This
intervention is six intensive individual sessions that will teach problem solving, cognitive
restructuring and stress reduction targeted to an individual assessment of the care dyad's
needs. It will be compared to another method of delivering content, education webinar
sessions, which are analogous to the usual standard of care and will function as an attention
control arm. The objective of the study is to determine which of these delivery mechanisms is
more effective at helping parent caregivers of injured post 9/11 returning troops to improve
their depression, anxiety, and burden, and to determine the feasibility of using individual
sessions with this population of caregivers.
Inclusion Criteria:
1. Identify as a parent who serves as the primary/main caregiver for a post 9/11 service
member or veteran with a diagnosis of traumatic brain injury or post traumatic stress
disorder or physical injury and at least 1 activity of daily living limitation or 2 or
more instrumental of daily living limitations;
2. provide 3 hours or more of care per day for at least 6 months;
3. endorse at least 2 caregiving stress behaviors (overwhelmed, often needing to cry,
angry/frustrated, cut off from family/friends, moderate/high levels of stress, and
declining health); and
4. have a telephone.
5. Internet access is desirable but not mandatory.
Exclusion Criteria:
1. current diagnosis of schizophrenia or other major mental illness; or
2. auditory impairment that would make telephone use difficult
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