Project CARE-D - Online Caregiver Education for Dementia

Completed · Phase 1

Conditions studied: Dementia

In brief

Managing daily symptoms for people with Alzheimer's Disease or Related Dementia (ADRD) can be challenging and confusing for informal caregivers who are family members or friends and not paid for their assistance. This is due, in part, to gaps in knowledge. Ensuring that informal caregivers are properly educated about ADRD symptoms and treatment guidelines is an essential first step for reducing adverse health events that people living with ADRD experience and addressing the substantial emotional and physical burden that caregivers report. The goal of is project is to improve caregiver education to support treatment adherence for ADRD with retrieval practice. This intervention incorporates principles from the science of learning for structuring retrieval practice to optimize learning and that are effective across the lifespan to compensate for gaps in knowledge and processing capabilities including learners who experience associative memory deficits due to age, their own disease state, or other factors.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07377318

Run by

Texas Christian University

People needed

65

Starts

2025-05-01

Expected to finish

2025-08-31

Last updated by the study team

2026-02-04

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• informal caregivers
• located in the United States
• Speak and read English
• free of cognitive deficits that would prevent consenting and/or completing online experimental tasks

You may not qualify if…

• formal caregivers
• former caregivers who are not currently in a care role for a person living with dementia
• technology issues that cause loss of data (e.g., internet connection failure)
• not finishing the experiment
• significant distractions during experimental tasks
• failure to pass attention or bot checks

Where it is running

• Texas Christian University — Fort Worth, Texas, United States

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