ACT Group for Family Caregivers of Stroke Survivors
This study is for family caregivers, aged 40 or older, who are the primary caregiver for a stroke survivor living with them. It aims to see if a group-based intervention called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) can help reduce stress, burnout, and distress in caregivers. You would participate in five weekly, 1.5-hour group sessions. Researchers will measure your psychological flexibility, quality of life, and how you avoid difficult experiences related to caregiving. The goal is to find out if this ACT group improves your well-being. This study is currently unclear about its recruitment status and plans to enroll 30 participants.
- Study design
- This study is an interventional study with a planned enrollment of 30 participants. It will compare a group receiving the ACT intervention with a control group.
- What's involved
- You would attend 5 weekly, 1.5-hour group intervention sessions. Your psychological well-being will be measured before, immediately after, and two months after the intervention.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Your well-being will be assessed at two months after the intervention ends.
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ACT Group for Family Caregivers of Stroke Survivors
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Where it's being run
1 sites across 1 statesWho to contact
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What this trial measures
- Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory - Short Form (MPFI-24)Pre-treatment, immediate post-treatment, and 2-month follow-up
The complete version of this questionnaire consists of 60 items that assess the 12 dimensions of psychological flexibility/inflexibility in ACT, including acceptance/experiential avoidance, contact with the present moment/lack of contact with the present moment, self as context/self as content, defusion/fusion, committed action/inaction, and values/lack of contact with values. The short form of the questionnaire consists of the first two items of each subscale such as "I was receptive to observing unpleasant thoughts and feelings without interfering with them" and "I was attentive and aware of my emotions," totaling 24 items.
- Adult Carer Quality of Life Questionnaire (AC-QoL)Pre-treatment, immediate post-treatment, and 2-month follow-up
40-item self-report questionnaire that measures the overall quality of life for adult carers, e.g., "because of caring, I feel that I have grown as a person" and "caring stops me doing what I want to do." The questionnaire consists of eight subscales for different domains of quality of life including support for caring, caring choice, caring stress, money matters, personal growth, sense of value, ability to care, and carer satisfaction. Each item is scored on a 4-point likert scale ranging from "never" to "always".
- Experiential Avoidance in Caregiving Questionnaire (EACQ)Pre-treatment, immediate post-treatment, and 2-month follow-up
15-item self-report scale measuring the three factors of experiential avoidance in the caregiving context, including active avoidant behaviors (caregivers' behaviors aimed at avoiding negative thoughts and feelings related to caregiving) using six items (e.g., "I tend to 'ignore' the negative thoughts that come to me about my relative"), intolerance of negative thoughts and emotions towards the relative (rigid rules about the experience of negative emotions and thoughts related to the care recipient) using four items (e.g., "one should not have bad thoughts about the person you are caring for"), and apprehension concerning negative internal experiences related to caregiving (reluctant and fearful attitudes towards negative private events related to the care recipient) using five items (e.g., "I cannot bear it when I get angry with my relative"). Each item in the questionnaire is rated from 1 ("not at all") to 5 ("a lot").
- Modified Caregiver Strain Index (MCSI)Pre-treatment, immediate post-treatment, and 2-month follow-up
13-item questionnaire that measures the strain of long-term family caregivers, which covers these four domains: financial (e.g., "caregiving is a financial strain"), physical (e.g., "caregiving is a physical strain"), psychological (e.g., "there have been emotional adjustments"), and social and personal (e.g., "there have been changes in personal plans").