NCT04627662Completed
Using Technology to Support Care Partners for Persons With Alzheimer's Disease: Tele-STELLA
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 20 Mar 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The purpose of this study is to test a revised psychoeducational intervention to help Care Partners for family members with dementia understand and reduce the distressing behaviors that come with progressive dementia. Tele-STELLA (Support via TEchnology: Living and Learning with Advancing Alzheimer's disease and related dementias) is a multicomponent videoconference-based intervention designed to facilitate effective management of behavioral and psychological symptoms common to the later stages of dementia. In the Tele-STELLA intervention, professionals ("Guides") meet with family members ("Care Partners") who care for persons with dementia. Working together, the Care Partners and Guides identify strategies to address upsetting behaviors. The goal of this intervention is to reduce upsetting behaviors and, thus, Care Partner burden.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 375 (actual)
- First submitted
- 8 Nov 2020
- Start date
- 14 May 2021
- Primary completion date
- 9 Jul 2025
- Lead sponsor
- Oregon Health and Science University
- Diseases
- Alzheimer disease
- NCT number
- NCT04627662
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 375
- From 14 May 2021 to the primary completion date, 9 Jul 2025
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Criteria the registry did not label
- Care Recipient Inclusion Criteria:
- Diagnosis of ADRD, moderate to late stages as defined by family member (Box 1)
- Exhibits 2 or more behaviors listed on RMBPC that are bothersome to the Care Partner and occur 3 or more times/week at study enrollment
- Family member of Care Partner (this can be a relative, spouse or close kin that is considered family)
- Care Recipient Exclusion Criteria:
- Dementia not related to ADRD
- Unable to leave Care Partner during Tele-STELLA sessions
- Early stage dementia, as defined by family member
- Care Partner Inclusion Criteria:
- Adult caring for family member with ADRD
- Provides care for at least 4 hours/week
- Age of 18 years or older
- Speaks and understands English to be able to participate in intervention
- Owns a telephone (smartphone, cell phone or landline)
- Has mailing address to receive computer and study materials
- Provides informed consent to participate in the Research
- Care Partner Exclusion Criteria:
- Unable to find activity for care recipient during Tele-STELLA sessions to allow Care Partner to work privately with Guide and other Care Partners.
- Completed similar telehealth intervention within the last year
- Hearing and/or vision problems severe enough to prevent participation
- Unwilling or unable to adequately follow study instructions and participate in study procedures
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon Health and Science University, Layton Aging and Alzheimer's Disease Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Portland | United States | Unknown status |
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