An interventional study of Carers-ID online support programme and Carers-ID online support programme - Wait-list control in Feasibility, sponsored by Queen's University, Belfast. Recruiting at 1 site in United Kingdom. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-06-23.
Sponsored by Queen's University, Belfast · Not applicable, Interventional, and Supportive care
Brief Summary:
Background: Feasibility and acceptability of the Carers-ID intervention to improve mental health outcomes in family carers of people with intellectual disabilities.
Objective:
Methodology:
Family carers (n = 120) will be randomised to receive the programme (n=60) or assigned to a wait-list control (n=60) group. The intervention (Carers-ID) consists of ten modules which cover topics including: promoting resilience, reducing anxiety, managing stress, accessing local supports, managing family conflict and information for siblings who are carers. Participants (n=12) who have taken part in the intervention arm of the research will be invited to participate in the process evaluation.
Outcome:
Number of participants to be enrolled: 120 family carers
Main inclusion criteria: Participants will be UK adults >18 years of age and will be caring for a family member with an intellectual disability.
Statistical Analysis: Descriptive statistics will be used to summarise baseline data including demographic variables and questionnaire responses. Inferential statistics (t-tests or ANOVA) will be used as indicators of difference between the intervention and control arms and will be used to determine effect sizes for sample size calculation in a future phase III trial.
Study duration: 24 months
Queen's University, Belfast is the lead sponsor of 113 studies on the registry; 14 are open to participants now.
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Inclusion Criteria:
Participants in this arm will receive access to the Carers-ID online programme. Participants will be able to access the online programme for 2 weeks.
Behavioral: Carers-ID online support programme
Wait-list control arm
Behavioral: Carers-ID online support programme - Wait-list control
The Carers-ID online programme, which consists of ten modules which cover topics including: promoting resilience, reducing anxiety, managing stress, accessing local supports, managing family conflict and information for siblings who are carers.
The same programme as above delivered to the wait-list control after the T2 follow-up data has been collected.
Retention of Subjects in Study Assessments
Retain 80% of intervention and control participants
Time frame: 3 months
Recruitment of Subjects Into Study
Sufficient recruitment is set as \>90 family carers.
Time frame: 3 months
Acceptability and feasibility of the outcome measures
Acceptability and feasibility of the outcome measures determined by process evaluation (\>80% of family carers).
Time frame: 6 months
Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale - 21 (DASS-21)
The Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale - 21 Items (DASS-21) is a set of three self-report scales designed to measure the emotional states of depression, anxiety and stress. Each of the three DASS-21 scales contains 7 items, with 21 items in total. Items are rated on a 4 point Likert scale, from 'Did not apply to me at all' to 'Applied to me very much or most of the time'. Scores for depression, anxiety and stress are calculated by summing the scores for the relevant items and multiplying by 2, with potential scores ranging from 0 to a maximum of 42. With higher scores indicating increased severity of emotional state.
Time frame: Baseline (T0), 2 weeks (T1), 3 months (T2)
The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS)
The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS) was developed to enable the measurement of mental wellbeing. The WEMWBS is a 14-item scale of positively worded statements covering feeling and functioning aspects of mental wellbeing. The 14-statements have five response categories from 'none of the time' to 'all of the time'. The WEMWBS is scored by summing the scores for each of the 14 items, which are scored from 1 to 5. Scores range from 14 to 70 and higher scores indicate greater positive mental wellbeing.
Time frame: Baseline (T0), 2 weeks (T1), 3 months (T2)
The Resilience Scale (RS-25)
The 25 Item Resilience Scale was developed as a general measure of resilience for adults across the lifespan. Participants respond by either agreeing or disagreeing with the statements on a scale of 1(disagree) to 7 (agree). The responses are summed (min 25 to max 175) and a higher score reflects stronger resilience.
Time frame: Baseline (T0), 2 weeks (T1), 3 months (T2)
The Social Connectedness Scale Revised
This 20-item scale is used to assess the extent to which persons feel connected to others in their surrounding social area. It is on a Likert scale with 1 being strongly disagree to 6 being strongly agree. The negatively worded items are reverse scored and summed together with the positively worded items to create a scale score with a possible range from 20 to 120. An item mean score with a possible range from 1 to 6 can also be calculated by dividing the total scale score by 20 (or the number of scale items). Higher scores on the SCS-R reflect a stronger sense of social connectedness.
Time frame: Baseline (T0), 2 weeks (T1), 3 months (T2)
Plan to share: Yes — All collected IPD will be made available in publications and open access databases.
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