N/A N=30 Randomized Supportive Care

Developing and Testing the Enhancing Active Caregiver Training (EnACT) Intervention for Dementia Family Caregivers

Dementia, Familial

Bottom Line

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Enrolled (actual)

Serious AEs

0.0%

Results posted

May 2026

Primary outcome: Primary: Imagined Interactions: Specificity — 16.87; 16.33; 16.49; 16.20 Scores on a scale — p=0.70

Study Design & Population

Study type: Interventional
Phase: N/A
Interventions: Enhancing Active Caregiver Training (Behavioral)
Age: Adult, Older Adult · 18+ yrs
Sex: All
Sponsor: University of Utah
Primary completion: Dec 2024

Outcome Measures

Outcome	Result	p-value
PRIMARY Imagined Interactions: Specificity	16.87; 16.33; 16.49; 16.20; 15.87; 16.64	0.70
PRIMARY Imagined Interactions: Proactivity	18.40; 17.20; 17.73; 18.73; 17.73; 19.21	0.17
PRIMARY Imagined Interactions: Discrepancy	21.40; 21.20; 20.60; 21.93; 19.73; 23.86	0.50
PRIMARY Capacity to Adapt	141.33; 143.13; 140.40; 142.80; 142.80; 138.64	0.41
PRIMARY Caregiver Capacity to Appraise Demands: Caregiving Burden Subscale	3.24; 3.50; 3.27; 3.56; 3.33; 3.56	0.10
PRIMARY Caregiver Capacity to Appraise Demands: Caregiving Satisfaction Subscale	3.22; 3.44; 3.16; 3.29; 3.16; 3.02	0.21
PRIMARY Caregiver Capacity to Appraise Demands: Caregiving Mastery Subscale	3.84; 3.39; 3.96; 3.40; 3.81; 3.26	0.76
PRIMARY Caregiver Capacity to Appraise Demands: Care Demand Subscale	2.56; 2.67; 2.60; 2.93; 2.53; 3.29	0.62
PRIMARY Caregiver Capacity to Appraise Demands: Caregiving Environmental Impact Subscale	2.44; 2.60; 2.60; 3.00; 2.49; 3.21	0.96
SECONDARY Perceived Stress	16.80; 21.27; 16.60; 19.33; 17.73; 22.93	0.16
SECONDARY Modified Caregiver Burden Inventory	44.39; 47.36; 44.81; 51.04; 46.86; 54.42	0.64
SECONDARY Positive Aspects of Caregiving Scale	31.47; 31.13; 31.13; 32.13; 32.33; 28.29	0.21

Summary

Persons with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) experience behavioral symptoms such as agitation, combativeness, depression, and apathy. These behaviors increase caregiver stress, which leads to negative outcomes, such as poor health, depression, and increased caregiver burden. This project seeks to develop and test an intervention to enhance active caregiver skill training to prepare caregivers to better manage behavioral symptoms in order to improve ADRD caregiver wellbeing. This intervention is called Enhancing Active Caregiver Training (EnACT). The study team will develop and conduct initial testing of EnACT techniques in a small group intervention with family caregivers of persons living with dementia. This intervention will first develop and refine EnACT through small group meetings with ADRD caregivers. Next, EnACT will be tested by two groups of ADRD caregivers in order to assess how achievable and useful caregivers find it to be. In addition, EnACT will be evaluated for its impact on caregiver preparation, stress process, and well-being.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

providing primary, informal, support to family members with Alzheimer's disease or related dementia (ADRD).
18 and older
ability to read and speak English.

Exclusion Criteria

Formal caregivers
Persons under the age of 18
individuals who have English fluency ratings of none or poor

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