Cognitive and Health Benefits of Expressive Writing for Family Caregivers Under Stress
试验速览
- 阶段
- 1 期
- 入组人数
- 120
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- General Health Questionnaire
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of this study is to determine if expressive writing is an effective intervention for reducing stress, enhancing cognition, and improving quality of life for caregivers of older adults with dementia
详细描述
A significant and growing need exists to support caregivers of older adults with dementia, including methods of support that are easily implemented and targeted at caregivers who can not access multicomponent interventions. The current intervention examines the efficacy of one such approach: expressive writing (EW).
We are examining the efficacy of EW, in terms of its ability to reduce stress, enhance cognition, and improve well-being, by comparing it to two control conditions: objective writing about how caregivers spend their time (time management; TM) and objective writing about non-personal historical events (history writing; HW).
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Primary family caregiver for an older adult with dementia
- •Self-reported caregiver stress or burden
- •Fluency in written/spoken English
排除标准
- •non-family or non-primary caregiver
- •existing use of expressive writing / diary
结局指标
主要结局
General Health Questionnaire
Impact of Events Scale
Zarit Burden Interview (short form)
California Verbal Learning Test
Ruff 2 & 7 Selective Attention Test
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
次要结局
未报告次要终点