Dementia Caregivers and Contemplative Practice: A Pilot Study

Loneliness Clinical Trial

Official title:

Dementia Caregivers and Contemplative Practice: A Pilot Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06075329
• Other study ID #: UNLV-2023-395
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 1, 2023
• Est. completion date: May 31, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: October 2023
• Source: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Contact: Nirmala Lekhak, PhD
• Phone: 7028955983
• Email: nirmala.lekhak[@]unlv.edu
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this study is to test the contemplative practice is feasible and acceptable among informal dementia caregivers population at all stages.

Description:

It will also examine the benefits of this intervention and compare the outcomes between two groups (intervention and wait-list control).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 200
• Est. completion date: May 31, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: May 31, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Dementia Family Caregivers
• At least cared for dementia care receipient more than 6 months

Exclusion Criteria:

• If they have meditated less than 2 months ago
• Cognitive or language barrier that would make it difficult to understand and sign the informed consent

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Dementia
• Loneliness

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Contemplative Practice
Contemplative practice included Maitribodh Sambodh Dhyaan (MSD), which was designed to increase feeling of love and connection by including most of components of different contemplative practices such as breath watch, mantra or vibrational sound chant, focused meditation, and visualization followed by loving-kindness or a gratitude exercise at the end.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Nevada Las Vegas	Las Vegas	Nevada

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in Loneliness	The UCLA 3-item Loneliness scale will be used to measure loneliness. The scores on this scale range from 3 to 9, the highest scores indicative of a higher level of loneliness. The scale is called UCLA 3-item scale but UCLA is representative of University of California Los Angeles.	baseline, at 10 days and 21 days of Matribodh Sambodh Dhyaan practice (meditation), and at 30 days and 60 days follow-up.