NCT06055322Completed
Reducing Suicide Risk Among Aging Caregivers of Persons With AD/ADRD
Reducing Suicide Risk Among Aging Caregivers of Persons With AD/ADRD: Adapting, Implementing, and Evaluating Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training Interventions
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 14 May 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This project aims to adapt, implement, and evaluate a Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills training group intervention for aging adult family caregivers of person with Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) to reduce suicidality. By adapting this modality, the investigators will provide a scalable intervention tailored for this high-risk population, maximizing the public health impact and improving suicide prevention.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 9 (actual)
- First submitted
- 12 Sept 2023
- Start date
- 7 Jan 2025
- Primary completion date
- 1 May 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Texas Tech University
- Diseases
- Alzheimer disease
- NCT number
- NCT06055322
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 9
- From 7 Jan 2025 to the primary completion date, 1 May 2026
- 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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Other illness
- Participants with neurocognitive impairment will be excluded (a Mini-Mental State Exam score ≤ 23; Folstein et al., 1975; Kochhann et al., 2010)
Who the study is looking for
- being age 50 and over (as most informal caregivers of persons with AD/ADRD are 50 or older; AARP, 2020; Chi et al., 2019)
- being the primary informal caregiver
- living with an AD/ADRD-diagnosed patient
- being willing to be prodded for bloodspots
- demonstrating English-fluency
- endorsing a direct or indirect SI/suicide risk
- Eligible individuals will score above clinical cutoffs for SI/suicide risk on at least 1 of 3 measures: the Suicide Behavior Questionnaire-R (SBQ-R; score \> 6; Osman et al., 2002), Interpersonal Needs Question-naire (INQ; thwarted belonging score \> 35; and perceived burden \> 17; Mitchell et al., 2020) or the Geriatric De-pression Scale (GDS; score \> 5 Heisel et al., 2005).
Age in the registry: 50 years to 120 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garrison Institute on Aging Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lubbock | United States | Unknown status |
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