NCT06168604Recruiting
Evaluating the Efficacy of the Pain Identification and Communication Toolkit
The Pain Identification and Communication Toolkit: A Training Program to Support Family Caregivers of Persons With ADRD
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 12 Feb 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study will evaluate the Pain Identification and Communication Toolkit (PICT), a multicomponent intervention for caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). PICT provides training in observational pain assessment and coaching in effective pain communication techniques. It will recruit participants from programs of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) and partnering health care clinics. The investigators hypothesize that PICT will help caregivers to recognize and communicate about pain in their care recipients.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 440 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 1 Dec 2023
- Start date
- 14 Dec 2023
- Primary completion date
- 30 Oct 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Weill Medical College of Cornell University
- Diseases
- Alzheimer disease
- NCT number
- NCT06168604
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 440
- From 14 Dec 2023 to the primary completion date, 30 Oct 2027
- 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
- Does not provide care to a person with dementia or cognitive impairment who also has a pain diagnosis
- No dementia or cognitive impairment
- Has terminal illness with life expectancy \<6 months
- Are in active cancer treatment
Age
- Age 20 or younger
Other
- Paid caregiver
- Non-English speaking
- Cognitively impaired
- Currently enrolled in hospice
- The patient to whom the caregiver provides assistance is enrolled in hospice
- Visits care recipient less than weekly
- Not accessible by telephone.
- PATIENT PARTICIPANTS
- Lives in a residential facility (such as a nursing home or assisted living)
- Enrolled in hospice
- Unresponsive to environment
Who the study is looking for
- Age 21 or older
- Any gender
- English speaking
- Cognitively intact (BOMC ≤10)
- Provides care to a community-dwelling adult with dementia or cognitive impairment who also has a pain diagnosis
- Care recipient is not enrolled in hospice
- Visits the care recipient at least weekly
- Accessible by telephone
- Residing in community settings
- Record of dementia or cognitive impairment
- Diagnosis of pain
- Responsive to environment
- No terminal illness with life expectancy \<6 months
- Not in active cancer treatment
Criteria the registry did not label
- CAREGIVER PARTICIPANTS
Age in the registry: 21 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weill Cornell Medicine Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Recruiting |
Related publications
- The pain identification and communication toolkit: a training program to support family caregivers of persons with ADRD.BMC Geriatr · 2025 · PMID 41345575
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