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Building Better Caregivers Online: An Online Workshop for Caregivers of Those With Traumatic Brain Injury, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or Alzheimer's or Other Dementia
Not Recruiting
Trial ID: NCT00799786
Purpose
The workshop is a 6-week online workshop for caregivers of people with traumatic brain
injury, post traumatic stress disorder, or dementia. It is being conducted jointly by the
Stanford Patient Education Research Center and the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
and is supported by a grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs, Patient Care Services,
Office of Care Management and Social Work.
The goal of the study is to determine whether an online caregiver education and support
workshop can have lasting beneficial effects in helping caregivers improve their
self-management of health skills, stress, and improve their caregiving abilities.
Official Title
Building Better Caregivers Online
Stanford Investigator(s)
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:Any adult (18 and over) who provides caregiving services for at least 10
hours per week (counting direct caregiving and related activities) for a veteran with
traumatic brain injury, post traumatic stress disorder, or dementia, or is a veteran giving
care to someone with one of these disorders, and has access to the internet and an email
account. A caregiver is defined as any relative, partner, friend or neighbor who has a
significant personal relationship with and provides a broad range of assistance for an
older person or an adult with a chronic or disabling condition. These individuals may be
the sole caregiver or one of several that live with or separately from the person receiving
care.
- Live in California
- Have access to the internet and an email account
- Able to read English Exclusion Criteria:Live outside of California, Hawaii or Southern
Nevada, under 18 years of age, not have access to a computer and own emai
Intervention(s):
behavioral: Building Better Caregivers Online Workshop
Not Recruiting
Contact Information
Stanford University
School of Medicine
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford,
CA
94305
Diana Laurent
6507237935