A Dyadic Telehealth Program to Support Alzheimer’s Disease Patients and Their Caregivers During COVID-19

在 COVID-19 期间为阿尔茨海默病患者及其护理人员提供支持的二元远程医疗计划

• 批准号: 10287329
• 负责人: Yeonsu Song
• 金额: $ 4.82万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-05-15 至 2022-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10287329
• 关键词: Address; Adherence; Administrative Supplement; Affect; Age; Alzheimer' s Disease; Alzheimer' s disease patient; Anxiety; Appointment; Area; Behavior; Behavior Therapy; Behavioral; Businesses; COVID-19; COVID-19 mortality; COVID-19 pandemic; Caregiver Burden; Caregivers; Chronic; Clinical Trials; Data; Doctor of Philosophy; Education; Elderly; Family Caregiver; Feedback; Focus Groups; Future; Geriatrics; Gerontology; Health; Healthcare Systems; Home; Hospitalization; Immune; Intervention; Joints; K-Series Research Career Programs; Knowledge; Life; Los Angeles; Measures; Medicine; Mental Depression; Mental Health; Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award; Mentors; Outcome; Participant; Patients; Persons; Phase; Physical Exercise; Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index; Preparation; Quality of Care; Quality of life; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Resources; Risk; School Nursing; Sleep; Sleep Disorders; Sleep disturbances; Social Distance; Structure; Suspensions; Symptoms; Techniques; Technology; Testing; Time; Training; Training Activity; Vulnerable Populations; Work; actigraphy; base; care giving burden; career development; clinical center; community setting; comorbidity; compare effectiveness; depressive symptoms; design; evidence base; experience; frailty; health care availability; high risk; improved; informal support; intervention program; medical schools; member; pandemic disease; poor sleep; post intervention; primary outcome; professor; programs; psychological symptom; reduce symptoms; secondary outcome; skills; sleep difficulty; sleep health; sleep quality; social; social engagement; symptomatic improvement; telehealth; training opportunity; usability

Project Summary/Abstract Yeonsu Song, PhD, RN, FNP is an Assistant Professor at the School of Nursing at UCLA with joint appointment as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine and an Affiliated Investigator at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. Currently she is leading a pilot clinical trial of a face-to-face intervention program which primarily focuses on improving sleep among AD patients and their caregivers as a part of her K award. This proposed administrative supplement focuses on addressing mental health and sleep issues using telehealth among this vulnerable group during the COVID-19 pandemic. It will also address issues related to adherence to social distancing and safer-at-home orders that may exacerbate sleep and mental health symptoms during this pandemic. This supplement will provide her with additional training opportunities and preliminary data necessary for her to prepare an independent research grant. Career development and training plan: New training areas include telehealth and mental health. Mentors in her current K award will continue to provide Dr. Song with their expertise for this supplement: Drs. Jennifer Martin (behavioral telehealth medicine), Cathy Alessi (sleep medicine), Michael Irwin (depression and sleep), and Edmond Teng (assessment of AD). A new consultant (Dr. Mary Cadogan) in this supplement will also guide Dr. Song to refine the mental health-related intervention components including depression and anxiety in a telehealth platform. Dr. Song will draw on resources available through UCLA’s School of Nursing, CTSI, UCLA’s Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, and the VA Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center. She will also complete additional training activities. Research plan: The current proposal aims to evaluate the feasibility of a dyadic telehealth program addressing sleep and psychological symptoms (depression and anxiety) related to the COVID-19. In the first phase of the project, we will refine the telehealth intervention with input and feedback from three dyads. In the second phase of the study, we will pilot test the program in a one-group, pretest-posttest design with 12 dyads. Participants will be assessed at baseline and post-intervention on sleep, depression, and anxiety. The telehealth intervention program will involve 6 sessions and include new strategies addressing psychological symptoms as well as behavioral sleep strategies used for her current K award project. A unique aspect of the proposed work is that it targets the most common health issues of both members of the group arisen during the COVID-19 pandemic in a telehealth format. It will generate feasibility data on delivering dyadic behavioral strategies (e.g., techniques of behavioral activation and social engagement) tailored to telehealth and increase adaptability in multiple community settings.

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