Status:
COMPLETED
Telephone Resources and Assistance for Caregivers (TRAC)
Lead Sponsor:
Rush University Medical Center
Collaborating Sponsors:
Stanford University
Conditions:
Alzheimer's Disease
Eligibility:
All Genders
40+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The purpose of this randomized clinical trial is to test a 12-month multi-component health promotion intervention with home-based family caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's Disease and other relate...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Care recipient:
- Diagnosis of probable AD or related dementia (using NINCDS/ADA criteria)
- Reside in the community
- Receive assistance from a primary caregiver
- Caregiver:
- Are a spouse or other close family member of the person with AD/dementia
- Age ≥ 40 years
- English-speaking
- Live with the care recipient (or close as in 5-10 miles)
- Provide ≥ 10 hours of care per week
- Caregiver for at least 6 months
- Are physically inactive, defined as accumulating ≤ 60 minutes of regular PA on a weekly basis for the past 6 months
- Reporting some to moderate levels of strain
- Are cognitively intact
- Have no major debilitating health problems that would prevent intervention participation
- Must have a telephone
- Willing to increase levels of physical activity
- Agree to assignment of treatment condition
Exclusion
- Care receiver:
- Other dementias such as stroke or Parkinson's
- Terminal illness with life expectancy of less than six months
- Bedfast or confined to a bed or chair at least 22 hours a day for at least 3 of the previous 7 days
- ≥ 3 acute or medical or psychiatric hospitalizations in last year
- Caregiver:
- Are involved in another caregiver clinical trial
- Have a terminal illness with life expectancy of less than 6 months
- Receiving active treatment for cancer
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
May 1 2007
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
February 1 2013
Estimated Enrollment :
211 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00721383
Start Date
May 1 2007
End Date
February 1 2013
Last Update
December 31 2014
Active Locations (2)
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1
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California, United States, 94305
2
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612