ADRD spousal caregivers, loneliness, & immune dysregulation: Real-Time, real-world intervention targets

ADRD 配偶照顾者、孤独、

• 批准号: 10651524
• 负责人: Christopher Paul Fagundes
• 金额: $ 238.35万
• 依托单位: RICE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-10 至 2026-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10651524
• 关键词: Activities of Daily Living; Acute; Adult; Affect; Aging; Alzheimer' s disease related dementia; Behavior; Biological; Blood; Caregiver Burden; Caregivers; Caring; Cell Aging; Characteristics; Data; Dementia; Dementia caregivers; Disease; Distal; Ecological momentary assessment; Emotions; Grief reaction; Health; Hour; Immune; Individual; Individual Differences; Inflammation; Inflammatory; Intervention; Knowledge; Life; Location; Loneliness; Mediating; Memory; Mental Depression; Mental Health; Mitochondria; Modeling; Morbidity - disease rate; Outcome; Patient Self-Report; Pattern; Personal Satisfaction; Personality; Phenotype; Physiological; Play; Premature Mortality; Premature aging syndrome; Proliferating; Psyche structure; Research; Risk; Severities; Social Environment; Social Interaction; Social isolation; Spouse Caregiver; Spouses; Stressful Event; System; Time; Visit; Well in self; Work; adaptive intervention; age related; biological adaptation to stress; caregiving; cohort; cytokine; depressive symptoms; design; expectation; experience; follow-up; heart rate variability; indexing; instrumental activity of daily living; knowledge base; laboratory experiment; mortality; physical conditioning; smart watch; social culture; stressor; systemic inflammatory response; trait

Caregiving for a spouse with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia (ADRD) is among life's most stressful experiences and is characterized by caregiver burden, grief, and higher rates of morbidity and premature mortality. Yet, there is considerable unexplained variability in ADRD spousal caregivers' mental and physical health patterns. ADRD spousal caregivers are prone to social isolation and loneliness, two separate but related constructs thought to fuel physical and mental health problems in ADRD spousal caregivers. Very little is known about how loneliness, social isolation, and their temporal dynamics and interactions play out in real-time in the real-world. This is unfortunate because dementia spousal caregivers' experiences of objective social isolation and loneliness, and their concurrent physiological state, are constantly changing in real-time based on a constellation of temporal dynamics, proximal momentary factors (e.g., location, time, tasks/stressors, quality and type of recent social interaction), trait-like patterns of relational expectations, emotions, and behaviors (e.g., attachment orientations), and sociocultural conditions. A socio-culturally diverse cohort of 300 ADRD spousal caregivers will answer questions about their mental wellbeing (caregiver burden, depression & grief) and provide blood to evaluate proinflammatory cytokine and two related determinants of inflammatory phenotypes, cellular aging, and disease (i.e., mitochondrial, and glycolytic function) at baseline, and during two follow-up visits (2 weeks and 6 months after baseline). They will also provide intrapersonal and socio-contextual data by self-report. During a 2- week gap between visits 1 and 2, a 14-day ecological assessment will provide momentary data on loneliness, depressive affect, momentary context (e.g., current location, social context, daily activities, caregiving and non-caregiving stressors. Using a sophisticated smartwatch we successfully piloted in ADRD spousal caregivers, we will continuously evaluate vagally mediated heart rate variability. Aim 1 models the momentary associations between loneliness, depressive affect, and vagally mediated heart rate variability; Aim 1 will also model the impact of loneliness (both severity and variability) on indices of ADRD spousal caregiver mental wellbeing (caregiver burden, depression & grief), and physical health (inflammation, mitochondrial and glycolytic function) over time. Aim 2 investigates whether associations between momentary loneliness, ADRD spousal caregiver mental wellbeing, and physical health indices are modified by momentary context, and relatively stable indices of intrapersonal (i.e., attachment orientation) and contextual (i.e., sociocultural conditions) factors. Aim 3 (exploratory) models the impact of vmHRV on indices of ADRD spousal mental care wellbeing (caregiver burden, depression & grief), and physical health (inflammation, mitochondrial and glycolytic function) over time.

照顾患有阿尔茨海默病或相关痴呆症（ADRD）的配偶是生活中压力最大的事情之一