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- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT03645694
Social Support Aid For People With Dementia
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
This project develops a novel social support aid (SSA) to allow persons with memory concerns (PWMCs) to more fully engage in their social network and enhance their quality of life. The SSA will assist people in an early stage of dementia, e.g., Alzheimer's disease or related dementia, who desire social interaction, but struggle to remember names and relationships. It provides memory cuing by displaying the names and relationships of the people with whom PWMCs are engaged. The investigators anticipate that the SSA will offer robust support for care partners and PWMCs in various communities. The SSA is not intended to replace caregiver aids, but rather augment them to further improve quality of life. Millions of Americans have dementia, the loss of mental functions, e.g., thinking, memory, and reasoning, which interferes with their daily functioning. While some cases of dementia are caused by medical conditions that can be treated, most cannot be reversed. Hence, the focus switches from treatment to palliative care, i.e., developing a plan to make life easier and more comfortable for individuals with dementia and their caregivers. Assistive technologies to enhance living with dementia, let alone studies that evaluate their efficacy, are underdeveloped. The proposed project aims to begin filling this scientific and clinical gap by developing a social support aid and formally evaluating its utility via a sufficiently powered randomized controlled trial.
This phase II Small Business Innovation Research project will continue work started in phase I and complete a product. The aim of this human subjects research protocol is to evaluate whether the SSA exerts positive benefits for PWMCs' social connections, communication, and quality of life via an embedded experimental mixed methods design that combines the collection and analysis of qualitative data within a traditional randomized controlled trial (RCT) design. The investigators hypothesize that the proposed SSA will exert positive benefits on the social connections, communication, and quality of life of people in early stage dementia.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Phase 2
Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
PWMCs must be:
- A physician diagnosis of early-stage Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, or a self-identified concern of memory loss.
- Able to complete surveys in English or Spanish
- SLUMS score of 20 or above
Care partners of PWMCs must be:
- 21 years of age and over;
- self-identify as someone who provides assistance to the PWMC because of their memory loss (these individuals are called ''care partners,'' as these individuals may or may not provide the intensive hands-on care typical of ''caregivers'');
- indicate a willingness to use the SSA
Exclusion Criteria:
- Indicates an unwillingness to use the SSA.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: SSA
Individuals with memory concerns in the experimental arm received the prototype facial recognition technology, which included a smartphone and smartwatch.
The smartphone was equipped with facial recognition software application; the smartwatch communicated information with the smartphone.
Persons with memory concerns and their family care partners were given a demonstration on how to utilize the technology.
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Please see earlier; the social support aid technology consists of a smartphone with a facial recognition software application and a smartwatch.
Up to 1,000 individuals can be enrolled in the facial recognition application.
Enrollment includes typing individuals names and relationships of the person with memory concern into the application and taking pictures of PWMC's faces at multiple angles.
Once enrolled and in view of the smartphone's camera, the SSA's application recognizes the individual's face and alerts the smartwatch.
The watch then vibrates and displays the individuals' name and relationship to the PWMC.
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No Intervention: Control
Control participants did not receive the technology; at the conclusion of follow-up, all controls were offered the technology to use.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change in Dementia Quality of Life
Time Frame: Baseline, 3-months, and 6-months
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The 21-item modified Dementia Quality of Life instrument is a self-report survey that assesses various domains of quality of life in the person wtih dementia.
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Baseline, 3-months, and 6-months
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Change in Cantril quality of life ladder
Time Frame: Baseline, 3-months, and 6-months
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The Cantril quality of life ladder is a single item survey that asks respondents to rate their overall quality of life on a scale of 0 (bottom of the latter) to 10 (top of the ladder).
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Baseline, 3-months, and 6-months
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Pleasant events and activities of person with memory concerns
Time Frame: 3-months and 6-months
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The Pleasant Events and Activities-AD Schedule Short Form is a 17-item self-report survey that measures the degree of enjoyment persons with dementia have engaging in a range of activities.
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3-months and 6-months
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Change in the frequency and quality of social interactions of persons with memory concerns
Time Frame: Baseline, 3-months, and 6-months
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Series of weekly, self-report calendar measures on types and quality of social interactions, developed for this study.
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Baseline, 3-months, and 6-months
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Publications and helpful links
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Study Completion (Actual)
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Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- 1502S63961
- R44AG041667 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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