Improving Care Through Improv: Promoting Mastery in the Moment
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 43
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Pearlin Mastery, Loss, and Competence: Caregiver Competence Subscale
研究概览
简要总结
The goals of this clinical trial are to: 1) refine the training program, "Improving Care though Improv;" and 2) test the program for its influence self-perceived caregiving mastery (i.e., how persons assess their ability to provide care) among informal caregivers of persons living with moderate dementia. Forty-three informal caregivers will be involved in testing the training program. These individuals will be assigned to groups of between 8 to12 caregivers and take part in weekly 2-hour sessions held over a 4-week period. These caregivers will be taught improvisational (improv) theater skills, which involves being in the moment, self-awareness, and responsiveness to others. This group also will be asked to answer surveys questions about themselves and the person receiving care at three timepoints and invited to provide feedback on their training experiences.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Other
- 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
- •Actively engaged in the care of community-dwelling persons living with moderate dementia (4 or 5 on a 7-point dementia-staging scale) who is not likely to be institutionalized within the next 6 months
- •Able to attend at least 3 of the 4 in-person sessions
- •Ability to communicate in English
排除标准
- •Potential participants were excluded if they did not meet the above criteria or anticipated moving their person to a skilled nursing facility within the next 6 months.
结局指标
主要结局
Pearlin Mastery, Loss, and Competence: Caregiver Competence Subscale
时间窗: at baseline, upon training completion (Week 4), and three months post baseline.
4-item Likert-type scale; scores range from 4 to 16 with higher scores indicating greater feelings of competence.
次要结局
- Perceived Stress Scale(at baseline, upon training completion (Week 4), and three months post baseline.)
- Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale(at baseline, upon training completion (Week 4), and three months post baseline.)
- State-Trait Anxiety Inventory(at baseline, upon training completion (Week 4), and three months post baseline.)
- Zarit Burden Inventory(at baseline, upon training completion (Week 4), and three months post baseline.)
- Revised Memory and Behavioral Problems Checklist - FREQUENCY(at baseline, upon training completion (Week 4), and three months post baseline.)
- Quality of Life-Alzheimer's Disease Scale(at baseline, upon training completion (Week 4), and three months post baseline.)
- Revised Memory and Behavioral Problems Checklist - REACTION(at baseline, upon training completion (Week 4), and three months post baseline.)
研究者
Candace Kemp
Professor
Georgia State University