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Trial reportClinical gerontologist

In-Home Assistive Technology May Help Protect Dementia Caregivers from Declining Sleep Efficiency: A Randomized Control Trial.

Julian A Scheffer, Darius T Levan, Jenna L Wells, Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, Kevin J Grimm, Kuan-Hua Chen, Casey K Brown, Breanna M Bullard, Claire I Yee, Scott L Newton and 5 more

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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In one paragraph

Trial report in Clinical gerontologist. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Julian A SchefferDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
Darius T LevanDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
Jenna L WellsDepartment of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
Dolores Gallagher-ThompsonDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5321-3403
Kevin J GrimmDepartment of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
Kuan-Hua ChenDepartment of Neurological Sciences, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
Casey K BrownDepartment of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.
Breanna M BullardDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
Claire I YeeDepartment of Quantitative and Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
Scott L NewtonDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
Enna Y ChenDepartment of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
Jennifer J MerrileesDepartment of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, California, USA.
David MossPeople Power Company dba Care Daily Company.
Gene WangPeople Power Company dba Care Daily Company.
Robert W LevensonDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.

Funding

Predicting Risk for Adverse Outcomes in Dementia CaregiversR01AG062639 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI Casey Leigh Brown, Robert Wayne Levenson · 2019 to 2026
$4.8M
Developing and Evaluating In-Home Supportive Technology for Dementia CaregiversR44AG059458 · NIA · PEOPLE POWER COMPANY · PI WANG, GENE · 2018 to 2020
$4.7M
Commercializing In-Home Supportive Technolgy for Dementia CaregiversSB1AG059458 · NIA · PEOPLE POWER COMPANY · PI WANG, GENE · 2021 to 2022
$3.2M
Interpersonal Emotion Regulation in Neurodegenerative Disease: Pathways to Caregiver HealthR00AG073617 · NIA · GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY · PI BROWN, CASEY LEIGH · 2022 to 2025
$1.2M
Behavioral and physiological linkage in people with frontotemporal dementia and spousal caregiversR00AG059947 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER · PI CHEN, KUAN-HUA · 2023 to 2025
$723k
NIA NIH HHS R00 AG059947NIA NIH HHS R00 AG073617NIA NIH HHS R01 AG062639NIA NIH HHS R44 AG059458NIA NIH HHS SB1 AG059458
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesCaregivers for people with dementia (PWDs) often experience sleep problems due to stressors associated with their role (e.g. concern about PWDs' nighttime wandering). We investigated whether a technology system, People Power Caregiver (PPCg), that helps monitor the caregiver's home would benefit caregivers' sleep.

methodsPrimary caregivers of PWDs (Study 1:

resultsCaregivers in the control conditions reported significantly worsening sleep efficiency whereas in comparison, those in the active conditions reported improving sleep efficiency.

conclusionsGiven how critical sleep is both for caregivers' health and the care they provide, these findings underscore potential benefits of in-home technologies for protecting caregivers' sleep. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Technology-based interventions that help monitor the home may support caregivers' sleep. Protecting caregivers' sleep may also preserve their ability to provide high-quality care as their loved one's disease and associated functional decline progresses.

Indexed as

CaregiversDementiaSelf-Help DevicesSleep Wake DisordersAdultAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedSleepSleep QualityInterventionlatent growth modelinglongitudinal

Identifiers

PMID40400304
PMCPMC12383241

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