Recruiting
Phase 1

Educational Intervention

Sponsor:

Texas Christian University

Code:

NCT07377331

Conditions

Dementia

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Structured Retrieval Practice (SRP)

Study Details

Brief summary:

The overarching goal of this work is to determine methods that improve caregiver education about the behavioral and psychological symptoms (BPSD) of dementia. The specific goal of this project is to extend our prior work to evaluate the impact of our educational intervention on caregivers' ability to transfer knowledge about the management of ADRD to real-world applied examples.

Conditions

Dementia

Study ID

NCT07377331

Start date

Nov 1, 2025

Status verified date

Jan, 2026

Completion date

Aug 15, 2026

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Aug 15, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • informal caregivers
  • 18+ years old
  • Read and speak English
  • free of cognitive impairments that prevent consent and/or completing experimental tasks
  • remote participants need access to a tablet, laptop, or desktop computer to complete tasks.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • professional caregivers
  • former caregivers who are not currently caring for someone living with dementia
  • caregivers providing assistance to someone with normal cognition

Study Design

Enrollment

60 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Crossover

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Within-participant design with 2 learning conditions: intervention and reading control

For each caregiver participant, half of the BPSD categories (i.e., 4) will be randomly assigned to the structured retrieval practice (SRP) intervention, and the other half will be randomly assigned to the restudy control condition.

Interventions

Structured Retrieval Practice (SRP)

Participants will complete self-paced practice tests for the 4 categories assigned to the SRP intervention. Specifically, the practice test will consist of 24 total questions: 6 multiple-choice questions for each of the 4-categories - 3 questions on triggers and 3 questions on symptom management. Each question will have 1 correct answer and 3 incorrect lures. The vertical order of responses on the screen will be randomized per participant. Questions will be presented in a blocked fashion such that participants will answer all 6 questions in one category (e.g., anxiety), in a random order, before moving to the next (e.g., hallucinations). After each multiple-choice answer, participants will receive detailed, corrective feedback. They will self-pace their study of feedback. Participants will complete 3 practice retrieval blocks.

Primary outcome measure

  • Immediate near transfer test performance [ Time Frame: 10 minutes post-intervention (session 1) ]
  • immediate applied transfer test performance [ Time Frame: approx. 10 minutes post-intervention (session 1) ]
  • Delayed Near Transfer test performance [ Time Frame: 2 days post-intervention (session 2) ]
  • Delayed Applied Transfer test performance [ Time Frame: 2 days post-intervention (session 2) ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Locations

Texas Christian University

Recruiting

Fort Worth, Texas, United States, 76129

Contacts

More Information

Sponsor

Texas Christian University

Last update posted

Jan 29, 2026

Last verified

Jan, 2026

Keywords

  • dementia
  • caregiving
  • knowledge
  • transfer
  • behaviorial problems

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-27. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Texas Christian University on 2026-01-29. Recruitment status is synced daily from ClinicalTrials.gov and may not reflect the sponsor's current status. Confirm during your call.