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Support Via Technology: Living and Learning With Advancing Dementia-REVISED
Sponsor: Oregon Health and Science University
Summary
STELLA-R is a multicomponent, self-directed, online intervention designed to facilitate effective management of behavioral and psychological symptoms that are common in many types of dementia. The curriculum instructs care partners to use the ABC approach, a cognitive behavioral technique that teaches care partners to describe a Behavior, then consider the Activators and Consequences of a care recipient behavior. The goal of this intervention is to reduce care partner burden and decrease reactivity to upsetting behaviors.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
238
Start Date
2024-07-02
Completion Date
2026-12-01
Last Updated
2025-10-23
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Conditions
Interventions
STELLA-R Curriculum
The STELLA-R curriculum is presented utilizing the ABC analytic approach to address care recipient's distressing behaviors. Using the scaffold of the ABC pyramid, they will receive video instructions on how to fully define the Behaviors they want to address by observing, describing, and writing about them. The care partners will learn to identify the Activators, the triggers for the behaviors. Next, care partners will learn to consider what happens after the behaviors, the Consequences. This is an 8-week self-directed, online weekly curriculum.
Unrestricted Access
Following the STELLA-R curriculum, care partners will receive 8 weeks of unrestricted access to all lessons and resources.
Limited Access
Experimental and Waitlist Control group will experience 8 consecutive weeks of limited access to the STELLA-R website and resources. Waitlist Control will experience this from Week 1 to Week 8 while the Experimental Group will reach this phase from Week 17 to Week 24.
Locations (1)
Oregon Health & Science University, Layton Aging and Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
Portland, Oregon, United States