Recruiting

Peer Navigator

Sponsor:

University of Chicago

Code:

NCT07346183

Conditions

Alzheimer s Disease

Dementia

Caregiver

Loneliness

Health-Related Social Needs

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

CommunityRx-Dpeer

Study Details

Brief summary:

The CRxDpeer intervention, delivered by a trained peer navigator, in practice called a "peer mentor", includes three evidence-based components: (a) focused education about common social (e.g., food and housing insecurity) and caregiving (e.g., respite and end of life care) needs, (b) activation of personalized community resource information for social and caregiving needs through delivery of a resource list (HealtheRx) at the baseline encounter and coaching on how to communicate with service providers, coordinate services and manage social support (e.g., connect with their peer navigator, reach out to friends or relatives for support, identify support groups, etc.) and (c) ongoing navigation-focused support meant to boost the baseline intervention, including a series of proactive text messages over 12 months. During this time, the subject can respond to and communicate with the peer navigator for ongoing support.

Conditions

Alzheimer s Disease

Dementia

Caregiver

Loneliness

Health-Related Social Needs

Study ID

NCT07346183

Start date

Oct 5, 2026

Status verified date

Oct, 2026

Completion date

Feb 28, 2029

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Feb 28, 2029

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Self-identifies as a caregiver of a home-dwelling person with Alzheimer's disease or related dementias (ADRD)
  • Resides in the target geographic region of the study
  • Has access to a cell phone and agrees to receive text messages from the study
  • Has an email address that they can receive emails from
  • Individuals under the age of 18 who are emancipated minors in the state of Illinois and a caregiver of a person with dementia

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Minors who are not emancipated in the state of Illinois.
  • Previously participated in the intervention arm of the CommunityRx-Dementia clinical trial

Study Design

Enrollment

330 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Health Services Research

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Cases

Usual care + CommunityRx-Dpeer

no intervention: Control

Usual Standard Care

Interventions

CommunityRx-Dpeer

Essential components of the CRxDpeer intervention include: (1) focused education about common social (e.g. food, housing, transportation) and, specifically, caregiving needs (e.g. caregiver education, stress management, End of Life/Advance Care Planning (EOL/ACP)) and related resources, (2) activation of community resources through delivery of and coaching on use of a personalized local referral list (a "HealtheRx") and (3) boosting through a series of automated proactive text messages and ongoing resource navigational support by text/phone/email/video for utilizing resources. This intervention will be delivered by a peer mentor who is experienced in dementia caregiving and trained to provide 1:1 peer mentorship and resource navigation to dementia caregivers.

Primary outcome measure

  • Caregiver loneliness at 6 months [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
  • Caregiver's self-efficacy for finding end of life/advance care planning resources for the person with dementia at 12 months [ Time Frame: 12 months ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Locations

University of Chicago

Recruiting

Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637

Contacts

Mellissa Grana, Bachelors of Arts

7738343700mgrana@bsd.uchicago.edu

More Information

Sponsor

University of Chicago

Last update posted

Oct 13, 2026

Last verified

Oct, 2026

Keywords

  • resource navigation
  • peer navigator
  • peer mentor
  • social care
  • dementia caregiver

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-10-14. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Chicago on 2026-10-13. Recruitment status is synced daily from ClinicalTrials.gov and may not reflect the sponsor's current status. Confirm during your call.