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Self-Management Interventions: Considering Needs & Preferences of Dementia Caregivers
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Resourcefulness training, Biofeedback, and 1 other intervention for Stress and 4 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 328 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
How do varying levels of participation in selecting self-management interventions (ranging from no input into the selection to selection based on need or preference) affect health risks and physical and mental health over time in family caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's and other dementia disorders? Caregivers will be randomized to 1) information on diversional activities (attention control); 2) self-management intervention based on need (SM-need); or 3) self-management intervention of their preference (SM-preference).
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Resourcefulness training is a cognitive behavioral intervention that consists of teaching and reinforcing personal (self-help) and social (help-seeking) strategies to overcome adversity.
Biofeedback training combines teaching slow, deep, paced breathing with real-time tracking to increase an individual's heart rate variability and ultimately improve self-regulation.
Participants randomly assigned to this intervention will receive suggested Diversional Activities, presented in an audiovisual format.