Engage Coaching for Latinos

Healthy Aging Research Program (HARP): Engage Coaching Project for Latinos

This study asks: "what behavioral strategies are needed to help socially disconnected Hispanic/Latino caregivers with significant barriers to increasing connectedness?" This study uses a mixed methods approach to adapt a brief behavioral intervention-Social Engage psychotherapy-for use with socially disconnected Hispanic/Latino caregivers. This study is a single-arm clinical trial of Social Engage psychotherapy. We propose to enroll 10 participants for up to 8 weekly individual Social Engage psychotherapy sessions, over up to 3 months. Subjects will be aged 40 and older, and be caregivers for a community-dwelling family member with ADRD, living with (or in close proximity to) the family member with dementia, experiencing elevated caregiving distress and social disconnectedness.

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Age ≥ 40 yrs;
2. Hispanic/Latino
3. English or Spanish speaking;
4. Caregiver for a community-dwelling family member with ADRD, living with (or in close proximity to) family member with dementia;
5. Endorse elevated caregiving distress as measured by a score of ≥ 11 on the 10-item Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) and/or a score of 5 or greater on the Modified Caregiver Strain Index (MCSI);
6. Endorse clinically significant loneliness as measured by a score of ≥ 6 on the UCLA Loneliness Scale: Short Form.
7. Has access to e-mail in order to complete the e-consent module in REDCap which will be used in this study.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Primary language is not English or Spanish;
2. Recent or current psychosis;
3. Significant cognitive impairment on a cognitive screening measure at the HARP screening assessment;
4. Hearing problems that preclude completion of the intervention.