The Primary objective of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness based caregiver intervention, Practice of Acceptance, Awareness, and Compassion in Caregiving (PAACC) compared to an established cognitive behavior therapy based dementia caregiver intervention, Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer's Caregiver Health (REACH) in improving caregiver burden and quality of life of care recipient.
The study is a randomized controlled trial comparing a mindfulness-enhanced evidence-based caregiver skill-building intervention (PAACC) to REACH-VA to reduce caregiver burden and increase quality of life of the care recipient. For this, caregivers of persons with ADRD or TBI-AD who have moderate to severe burden will be randomly assigned to either receive PAACC or receive REACH-VA. Both the interventions will include 4 biweekly sessions delivered by trained interventionists, followed by an outcome testing session after the intervention. Outcomes of caregiver stress, health and well being will be assessed at baseline and at the end of the intervention.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
142
Mindfulness based caregiver intervention that includes education , problem solving, skill building, stress management and mindfulness to help enhance compassion and acceptance of self and others
A cognitive-behavior based multi-component caregiver intervention to reduce caregiver stress
VA Boston Health Care system
Brockton, Massachusetts, United States
Salem VAMC
Salem, Virginia, United States
Perceived Stress Scale
The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) is a 10-item self-report scale developed to measure the degree to which each participant perceives and appraises recent life events as stressful
Time frame: 4-6 weeks
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