At a glance
ClinicalIndex Comparison Record- ✓Age 18 years or older
- ✓Self-identified as Black or Hispanic, living in the U.S. or U.S. territories
- ✓Currently serving as a dementia caregiver (any duration)
- ✓Able to speak English or Spanish/bilingual
- ✕Does not have a de-identified Twitter account
- ✕Not a dementia family caregiver
- ✕Is a child (age <18)
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Using Twitter to Enhance the Social Support of Hispanic and Black Dementia Caregivers
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Twitter for Hispanic caregivers and Twitter for African American caregivers for Loneliness and Emotional Stress. Completed, enrolled 966 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The prevalence of dementia is higher in Hispanics and African Americans than non-Hispanic Whites. Moreover, dementia caregivers often experience loneliness as well decreased health status. The expansion of social media use among Hispanics and African Americans, particularly Twitter - a short message service - offers great promise for improving social support. This study aims to evaluate changes of discussion topics, sentiment and networking styles (i.e., number of followers) among anonymous followers of our two Twitter networks; the African American/Black dementia caregiver group and the Hispanic dementia caregiver group.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
This group will be asked to follow and use (i.e., retweet, reply, like) our Hispanic Twitter network for social support
This group will be asked to follow and use (i.e., retweet, reply, like) our African American Twitter network for social support.