A Home-based, Culturally and Language Specific Intervention for Dementia Family Caregivers: Stress Reduction and Education With Wearable Technology for Health

Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Behavioral
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

The proposed study will test a 3-month, community health worker (CHW) delivered home visit, culturally and language-appropriate intervention for ethnic and underserved dementia family caregivers of persons with dementia (PWD) using wearable technology for real time monitoring of caregivers' stress and sleep. The CHW delivered home visit intervention includes stress reduction techniques by mindful deep breathing and compassionate support/listening and caregiving education to improve caregiver's health, wellbeing, and positive interactions with the PWD. This dementia caregiver study using wearable technology has the potential to significantly lessen health disparities in dementia care, assisting underserved ethnic dementia caregivers in self-management and increasing their quality of life.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
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• a relative of community dwelling person with dementia (i.e., Alzheimer's Disease or related dementias)

• providing primary care for the person with dementia

• willing to wear monitoring devices (a smartwatch during day time and a smartring during night time for 3 months

• self-reporting ethnicity/race as Korean, Vietnamese, Latino/Hispanic, or non-Hispanic Whites with the following languages spoken in this study: English, Spanish, Vietnamese, or Korean.

Locations
United States
California
University of California, Irvine
RECRUITING
Irvine
Contact Information
Primary
Jung-Ah Lee, PhD
jungahl@uci.edu
(949) 824-2855
Time Frame
Start Date: 2021-05-19
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-05-30
Participants
Target number of participants: 332
Treatments
Experimental: Home visit intervention by community health workers
The caregiver-centered, culturally and language specific home visit intervention with wearable devices (smartwatch/ring) will be delivered by trained bilingual community health workers (CHW) for Latino, Vietnamese, Korean, non-Hispanic White caregivers of PWD. The home visit intervention components will include (1) stress reduction techniques; mindful breathing and compassionate support/listening and (2) weekly education on dementia caregiving skills to handle difficult behaviors of PWD and knowledge of resources available for dementia care. The duration of the intervention will be 12 weeks that include 6 home visits (4 times for the first month and then once a month for two months) carried out in the participant's home. The on-site home visit intervention delivered by CHWs will focus on stress reduction techniques and caregiving skills education for 4 weeks and two monthly caregiver-driven topics for the following two sessions.
Active_comparator: Attention Control with wearable smartwatch/ring
The caregivers randomly assigned to the Attention Control (AC) group will be asked to wear smartwatch during the day time and smart ring during the night for 3 months in order to monitor their physiological measures (heart rate variability, heart rate, activities, sleep quality). CHW will give AC participants an overview of WIOT instruction at the baseline home visit. Caregivers will also receive resource information regarding Alzheimer's association and local social service information. CHWs will contact them monthly via phone for 6 months asking about the WIoT technology and answering general questions from participants. CHW will also visit participants' home at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months to administer survey assessments.
Placebo_comparator: Usual Care Group
The caregivers randomly assigned to Usual Care (UC) group will receive resource information regarding Alzheimer's association and local social service information at the baseline home visit by CHW. At recruitment, the participants will be told that at the end of the 6 months they will receive a smartwatch and a smartring for their participation. CHWs will contact them monthly for 6 months by phone answering only general questions from participants. CHW will also visit participants' home at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months to administer survey assessments.
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: University of California, Irvine
Collaborators: National Institute on Aging (NIA)

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