A home-based, culturally and language specific intervention for dementia family caregivers: stress reduction and education with wearable technology for health

针对痴呆症家庭护理人员的基于家庭、文化和语言的特定干预措施：利用可穿戴技术减轻压力并进行健康教育

• 批准号: 10263312
• 负责人: Jung-Ah Lee
• 金额: $ 74.33万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-15 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10263312
• 关键词: Adult; Alzheimer' s Disease; American; Asians; Behavior; Behavior monitoring; Breathing; California; Caregiver Burden; Caregivers; Caring; Cause of Death; Cellular Phone; Chronic stress; Cognitive Therapy; Communication; Community Health Aides; Data; Dementia; Dementia caregivers; Disease; Education; Family; Family Caregiver; Family Relationship; Health; Health Services Accessibility; Health Technology; Home; Home visitation; Impairment; Individual; Internet of Things; Intervention; Knowledge; Koreans; Language; Latino; Measures; Mental Depression; Mental Health; Methods; Minority; Modeling; Monitor; Morbidity - disease rate; Not Hispanic or Latino; Outcome; Perception; Personal Satisfaction; Persons; Physical activity; Physiologic Monitoring; Physiological; Population; Quality of life; Randomized Controlled Trials; Reporting; Research; Resources; Risk Factors; Self Efficacy; Self Management; Sleep; Sleep Disorders; Social support; Spouses; Stress; Techniques; Technology; Telephone; Testing; Time; Underserved Population; United States Public Health Service; Woman; attentional control; base; biological adaptation to stress; care giving burden; caregiver interventions; caregiving; dementia care; dementia caregiving; effective therapy; ethnic minority population; experience; health disparity; health related quality of life; heart rate variability; improved; innovation; mindfulness; mortality; multi-component intervention; physical conditioning; positive emotional state; psychoeducation; psychologic; real time monitoring; response; skills; sleep quality; smart watch; stress management; stress reduction; treatment as usual; underserved minority; wearable device

ABSTRACT Over 5.8 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's dementia, a disease with no effective treatment and no cure. Two-thirds of the caregivers for persons with dementia (PWD) are women (most often family) and a third are themselves over 65. Dementia takes a significant toll on caregivers, often resulting in chronic stress, depression, sleep disorders, poor health related quality of life (HRQOL), and early mortality due 24/7 care responsibility for PWD. Research has shown significant barriers to dementia care for underserved populations, including Latinos and Asian minorities. Underserved family caregivers for PWD tend to underutilize public health services available, and do not seek treatment until the situation is unmanageable with current resources reporting barriers that included language, time, and finances. Monitoring the caregiver's health and wellbeing is important as well as their maintaining a positive interaction with the PWD. Thus, there is a need for an innovative and feasible intervention to improve underserved caregiver's mental and physical health. Little research is reported for dementia caregiver interventions in underserved minorities and one given at home by community health workers (CHWs). The proposed intervention meets the needs of these family caregivers in developing a positive relationship with the PWD by educating caregivers to better understand the PWD's behaviors. Another component of the intervention is stress reduction techniques, including mindful deep breathing and compassionate support/listening to reduce depression and improve family relationships making the caregiving less burdensome. By monitoring the physiological responses of stress (i.e. heart rate variability), sleep and activity, we can objectively measure changes as a result of the intervention. Using Wearable Internet of Things (WIoT) technology, a combination of Watch/ring-Smartphone-Cloud, has proven to be a significant method of monitoring behavioral and physiological measures providing evidence of change over time and uniquely associated with this intervention. Our preliminary data show that the intervention with WIoT brought to the caregiver by CHW home visitors was acceptable to ethnic caregivers (Latino, Vietnamese, and Korean) and effective in reducing caregiver stress and burden over the short term. With the addition of non-Hispanic Whites, the proposed caregiver-centered, culturally and language appropriate, CHW home-visit-based 3-month intervention has 3 significant parts:1) stress reduction by mindful breathing and compassionate support/ listening to improve caregiver's health and well-being; 2) education on caregiving skills to improve responses to the PWD and in turn their behaviors; 3) WIoT physiological and behavioral monitoring. This 6-month randomized controlled trial will compare outcomes (burden, depression, HRQOL, PWD behaviors, caregiving self-efficacy) between the intervention, attention control with use of the WIoT only, and usual care groups at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months. This intervention using the CHW-model and WIOT technology has the potential to lessen health disparities in dementia caregiving in ethnic and underserved family caregivers.

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