SAGE LEAF 2: Online Program for Dementia Caregivers
This study is testing an online program called SAGE LEAF, which teaches positive emotion skills, to see if it can help family caregivers of people with dementia manage stress. The program lasts about 6 weeks and you can participate from home using any device with internet access. Researchers want to know if SAGE LEAF can improve positive emotions, reduce caregiver burden (the stress and difficulties of caregiving), and decrease loneliness and depression. They will measure these things before and after you complete the program. The study is currently unclear about its recruitment status, but aims to enroll 53 participants.
- Study design
- This is a single-arm study, meaning all participants will receive the SAGE LEAF program. It is fully online and aims to enroll up to 140 family caregivers.
- What's involved
- You will complete an 8-week online program with weekly lessons, daily skill practice, and daily emotion reporting. You will also complete two online surveys, one before and one after the program.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Your caregiver burden, positive aspects of caregiving, and positive affect will be measured at baseline and 8 weeks.
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SAGE LEAF 2: An Online Program to Reduce Dementia Caregiver Burden
At a glance
Conditions
Where it's being run
1 sites across 1 statesStudy leadership
- Judith Moskowitz, PhD, MPH · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Northwestern University
Who to contact
This trial hasn't published a contact. View it on ClinicalTrials.gov
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What this trial measures
- Caregiver Burden measured using the Zarit Burden Interview.Baseline and 8 weeks
Assesses perceived burden in caregivers by assessing subjective feelings of the impact of caregiving on emotional and physical health, financial strain, and social functioning. Scale values range from "Never" to "Nearly Always" with higher scores reflect greater burden.
- Positive Aspects of Caregiving measured using the Positive Aspects of Caregiving scaleBaseline and 8 weeks
11-item scale that identifies positive consequences of caregiving, such as feeling more useful, feeling appreciated, and strengthening relationships with others. Values range from "Disagree a lot" to "Agree a lot." Higher scores indicate greater identification of the positives of being a caregiver.
- Positive Affect measured using the PROMIS Bank v1.0 Positive AffectBaseline and 8 weeks
Computer adaptive test (CAT) that assess momentary positive or rewarding affective experiences, such as feelings and mood associated with pleasure, joy, elation, contentment, pride, affection, happiness, engagement, and excitement, over the past 7 days, using a scale of not at all to very much, where higher scores indicate higher levels of positive emotion.
- Caregiver self-efficacy/mastery measured using the Caregiving Mastery subscale of the Caregiving Appraisal MeasureBaseline and 8 weeks
12-item Caregiving Mastery subscale of the Caregiving Appraisal Measure. Values range from "Disagree a lot" to "Agree a lot" and "Never" to "Nearly Always" with higher scores indicating higher feelings of caregiving mastery.
- Anxiety measured by PROMIS Bank v1.0 AnxietyBaseline and 8 weeks
Computer adaptive test (CAT) that assesses level of anxiety by having participants rate items focused on depressive symptoms over the past 7 days, using scale from Never to Always, where higher scores indicate higher levels of anxiety.
- Depression measured by PROMIS Bank v1.0 DepressionBaseline and 8 weeks
Computer adaptive test (CAT) that assesses depressive mood by having participants rate items focused on depressive symptoms over the past 7 days, using scale from Never to Always, where higher scores indicate higher levels of depression.
- Social isolation measured by PROMIS Bank v2.0 Social IsolationBaseline and 8 weeks
Computer adaptive test (CAT) that assesses perceptions of being avoided, excluded, detached, disconnected from, or unknown by, others. Values range from Never to Always, and higher scores indicate higher degree of social isolation.
- Self-efficacy measured by PROMIS Bank v1.0 General Self-EfficacyBaseline and 8 weeks
Computer adaptive test (CAT) that assesses ones confidence in their ability to succeed in specific situations or complete a task. Values range from "I am not at all confident" to "I am very confident", where higher scores indicate higher confidence.
- Life satisfaction measured by PROMIS Bank v1.0 General Life SatisfactionBaseline and 8 weeks
Computer adaptive test (CAT) assesses one's cognitive evaluation of life experiences and whether one likes his/her life or not. Values range from "Strongly disagree" to "Strongly agree" with higher scores indicating higher degrees of satisfaction with one's life.
- Perceived stress measured by Cohen's Perceived Stress ScaleBaseline and 8 weeks
Ten item scale that measure the degree to which situations in one's life are appraised as stressful. Respondents are asked to indicate how often they felt or thought a certain way during the last month on a scale of 0 (Never) to 4 (Very Often), with higher scores indicating higher levels of perceived stress.
- Perceived social support measured by the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS)Baseline and 8 weeks
12-item measure of perceived adequacy of social support from three sources: family, friends, \& significant other; using a 5-point Likert scale (0 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree), where higher scores indicate higher perceptions of social support.
- Meaning and Purpose measured using PROMIS Bank v1.0 Meaning and PurposeBaseline and 8 weeks
Computer adaptive test (CAT) assesses the degree to which one feels life has purpose and there are good reasons for living, including hopefulness, optimism, goal-directedness, and feelings that one's life is worthy. Scale values range from "Strongly disagree" to "Strongly agree" on items 1-3, and "Not at all" to "Very much" on items 4-8, with higher values associated with a higher sense of meaning and purpose.