Recruiting

Observational Study

Sponsor:

Alzheimer's Association

Code:

NCT00438724

Conditions

Aging

Alzheimer Disease

Dementia

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 21 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Information, counseling and support

Study Details

Brief summary:

The purpose of this study is to test the efficacy of a new couples counseling intervention for people recently diagnosed with early Alzheimer's disease and their spouses. The study hypothesis is that counseling the couple shortly after the diagnosis, and while the functional impact of the illness is still relatively mild, will have a significant impact on their ability to provide support for each other.

Conditions

Aging

Alzheimer Disease

Dementia

Study ID

NCT00438724

Start date

Nov, 2004

Status verified date

Sep, 2007

Completion date

Nov, 2007

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 21 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Couples, in which one partner has been diagnosed with AD and is in the mild stage of the disease
  • Ages 21 to 90

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Severe psychological or physical illness
  • Unwillingness to participate in all aspects of the study

Study Design

Enrollment

200 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Interventions

Information, counseling and support

Primary outcome measure

  • Changes in dyadic (couple) adjustment [ Time Frame: undefined ]
  • depression [ Time Frame: undefined ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Locations

Aging and Dementia Research Center, Silberstein Institute, NYU School of Medicine

Recruiting

New York, New York, United States, 10016

Contacts

Cynthia Epstein

212-263-1056cynthia.epstein@med.nyu.edu

Ursula Auclair

212-263-2245ursula.auclair@med.nyu.edu

More Information

Sponsor

Alzheimer's Association

Last update posted

Sep 20, 2007

Last verified

Sep, 2007

Keywords

  • Caregivers
  • Caregiving
  • Spousal relationships
  • cognition disorders
  • therapy
  • mental health
  • psychosocial

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Alzheimer's Association on 2007-09-20.