NCT04536701Completed
Learning and Improving Alzheimer's Patient-Caregiver Relationships Via Smart Healthcare Technology
Collaborative Research: Learning and Improving Alzheimer's Patient-Caregiver Relationships Via Smart Healthcare Technology
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 6 May 2025 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The purpose of this project is to develop a monitoring, modeling, and interactive recommendation solution (for caregivers) for in-home dementia patient care that focuses on caregiver-patient relationships. This includes monitoring for mood and stress and analyzing the significance of monitoring those attributes to dementia patient care and subsequent behavior dynamics between the patient and caregiver. In addition, novel and adaptive behavioral suggestions at the right moments aims at helping improve familial interactions related to caregiving, which over time should ameliorate the stressful effects of the patient's illness and reduce strain on caregivers. The technical solution consists of a core set of statistical learning based techniques for automated generation of specialized modules required by in-home dementia patient care. There are three main technical components in the solution. The first obtains textual content and prosody from voice and uses advanced machine learning techniques to create classification models. This approach not only monitors patients' behavior, but also caregivers', and infers the underlying dynamics of their interactions, such as changes in mood and stress. The second is the automated creation of classifiers and inference modules tailored to the particular patients and dementia conditions (such as different stages of dementia). The third is an adaptive recommendation system that closes the loop of an in-home behavior monitoring system.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 22 (actual)
- First submitted
- 19 Aug 2020
- Start date
- 19 Feb 2021
- Primary completion date
- 31 Dec 2023
- Lead sponsor
- Ohio State University
- Diseases
- Alzheimer disease
- NCT number
- NCT04536701
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 22
- From 19 Feb 2021 to the primary completion date, 31 Dec 2023
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Other illness
- Presence of acute illness as this could lead to delirium
- History of significant psychiatric illness (e.g., schizophrenia).
Other
- Alcohol abuse or dependence within the past 2 years (DSM-IV criteria)
Who the study is looking for
- Females and males
- Age 60-90 years
- Physician documentation of dementia: Alzheimer's disease, vascular, mixed or unspecified type
- Community-dwelling (living in the home)
- Fluent in English
- Age 21 years or older
- Informal, unpaid caregiver who resides with the care recipient
- Fluent in English
- Functioning home Wifi
- Scoring above a 3 on the Revised Memory and Behavior Problems Checklist, a clinical cut-off point used to determine caregiver stress.
Age in the registry: 21 years to 99 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Ohio State University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Columbus | United States | Unknown status |
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