Depressive Symptoms Clinical Trial
Official title:
Integrative Therapeutic Program to Regulate Expressed Emotions Among Informal Caregivers of People With Dementia: a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial: a Study Protocol
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a 6-week Caregivers Of dementia Processing Emotions (COPE) program using the integrative therapy to reduce EE (primary outcome) in family caregiver of PLwD to alleviate the caregivers' depression, improve social dynamic with the PLwD, and mitigate the perceived stress from BPSD (secondary outcomes).
Status | Not yet recruiting |
Enrollment | 56 |
Est. completion date | February 1, 2025 |
Est. primary completion date | October 1, 2024 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | All |
Age group | N/A and older |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: - with a high level of expressed emotion as indicated by a cut-off score of 35 or above on the Family Attitude Scale (Chinese version; FAS-C);(Kavanagh et al., 1997; Van Humbeeck et al., 2002; Yu et al., 2016) - provides care at least 4 hours per day;(Moon & Adams, 2013) - consent to participate, and - no acute psychiatric illness. Exclusion Criteria: - with a low level (scored lower than 35 on FAS-C) of expressed emotion - do not provide consistent or sufficient care (fewer than 4 hours per day) to PLwD - do not consent to participate; - with comorbid acute psychiatric illness. |
Country | Name | City | State |
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Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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The University of Hong Kong |
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Expressed emotions | Family Attitude Scale - Chinese version (FAS-C) will measure caregivers' EE (i.e., criticism and hostility) held towards the PLwD. FAS-C items are rated on a 5-point Likert scale, with higher scores indicating a higher level of EE.(Kavanagh et al., 1997; Van Humbeeck et al., 2002) Its Cronbach's alpha has been reported as 0.95, with evidence of good construct validity | From baseline to 3rd month followup | |
Secondary | depressive symptoms | The 20-item The Centre for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) will assess caregivers' depression, with higher scores representing greater depressive levels on a 4-point scale.(Radloff, 1977) Its internal consistency Cronbach's alpha is 0.88 in the Chinese population, while its internal reliability is 0.91 and with evidence of construct validity.(Sebern & Whitlatch, 2007; Y. Zhang et al., 2015) | From baseline to 3rd month followup | |
Secondary | social dynamics | Social dynamics will be measured in the aspects of dyadic relationships and quality of care. First, the 11-item Dyadic Relationship Scale (DRS) will evaluate caregivers' perspective of dyadic and family relationships in their daily caregiving activities, with a higher score indicating positive dyadic interactions; and Cronbach's alpha of 0.89 with desirable construct validity and concurrent validity.(Sebern & Whitlatch, 2007) Second, the 4-item Interaction Quality Scale (IQS) will measure the quality of care on a 6-point Likert scale, with a higher score indicating better quality of care.(Cundiff et al., 2016) IQS has desirable test-retest reliability (Cronbach's alpha = 0.96) and construct validity.(Joseph et al., 2014) | From baseline to 3rd month followup | |
Secondary | BPSD | The 12-item Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) will assess the severity of BPSD manifested in PLwD reported by their caregivers.(Cummings, 1997) NPI comprises three levels, with higher scores indicating severer BPSD symptoms. Its test-retest reliability was 0.79 for the overall scale, and between 0.89 and 0.93 for subdomains.(Chen et al., 2018; Cummings, 1997) | From baseline to 3rd month followup |
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