Developing and Testing a Brief Mindfulness Just-in-time Adaptive Intervention for Reducing Stress of Dementia Caregivers | NCT07714681

NCT07714681

Overview

NCT ID: NCT07714681
Lead Sponsor: Education University of Hong KongOTHER
Official Title: Developing and Testing a Brief Mindfulness Just-in-time Adaptive Intervention for Reducing Stress of Dementia Caregivers
Brief Summary: To determine an effective decision rule for delivering brief mindfulness prompts as a function of caregivers' real-time stress state, including whether prompt delivery affects subsequent stress and affect and whether this effect varies by stress state at the decision point.

To determine an effective JITAI decision rule to deliver a brief mindfulness intervention depending the current state of stress of caregivers and to examine if the adaptive model of machine learning algorithm generate higher receptivity of the brief intervention than the static and control model at the end of the four weeks.

To evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects of the brief mindfulness just-in-time adaptive intervention on perceived stress and related caregiver outcomes.
Conditions

Ages Eligible for Study: Adult (18-64)Older Adult (65+)
Sexes Eligible for Study: All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Yes
Eligibility Criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

family dementia caregivers aged 18 above

family caregiver of an individual with a confirmed medical diagnosis of any type of dementia who has been residing in the community

having been providing care for ADLs and IADLs for at least 20 hours per week for at least one year prior to recruitment

have a smartphone

have moderate to high stress

Exclusion Criteria:

Having participated in any structured mind-body intervention, cognitive therapy, or structured psychosocial intervention in the 6 months prior to recruitment

Having acute psychiatric and medical comorbidities that are potentially life-threatening (e.g. suicidal ideation) or that limit the caregivers participation or adherence (e.g. acute psychosis).