mHealth Mindfulness With Patients With Serious Illness and Their Caregivers

Description

Older adults with serious illness and their caregivers have high rates of anxiety and limited access to effective, non-pharmacological treatments. A recent National Academy of Medicine report recommended increased emphasis on disseminating and implementing evidence-based psychotherapies in order to have maximal public health impact. Through this work, I will identify a sustainable and potentially scalable dyadic intervention and delivery model to manage symptoms of anxiety in older adults with serious illness and their caregivers in primary care.

Conditions

Caregiver Stress Syndrome, Anxiety

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

Older adults with serious illness and their caregivers have high rates of anxiety and limited access to effective, non-pharmacological treatments. A recent National Academy of Medicine report recommended increased emphasis on disseminating and implementing evidence-based psychotherapies in order to have maximal public health impact. Through this work, I will identify a sustainable and potentially scalable dyadic intervention and delivery model to manage symptoms of anxiety in older adults with serious illness and their caregivers in primary care.

Piloting an mHealth-delivered Mindfulness Therapy With Patients With Serious Illness and Their Caregivers to Alleviate Symptoms of Anxiety

mHealth Mindfulness With Patients With Serious Illness and Their Caregivers

Condition
Caregiver Stress Syndrome
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Livingston

RWJ Barnabas Outpatient Geriatric Clinics, Livingston, New Jersey, United States, 07039

Monroe

RWJB Outpatient Geriatrics, Monroe, New Jersey, United States, 08831

New Brunswick

Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, 08901

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * adults 60+
  • * Diagnosis of or caregiver for individual with serious illnesses (e.g., ESRD, Cancer, CHF, COPD, Liver Disease)
  • * Hads-A \> 8 for patient or caregiver
  • * Blessed\<6
  • * fluent in English
  • * vision and hearing does not interfere with mobile device use
  • * caregivers who must be 21+
  • * caregiver must identify as primary source of informal care for patient
  • * Caregiver blessed \<6
  • * caregiver is fluent in English
  • * Caregiver's vision and hearing does not interfere with mobile device use.
  • * experience with mindfulness therapy in last 2 years
  • * not fluent in English
  • * vision or hearing that impairs use of mobile device
  • * cognitive impairment more than 6 on Blessed.

Ages Eligible for Study

21 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey,

Elissa Kozlov, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Rutgers University

Study Record Dates

2026-10-01