Caregiver Stress and Sleep Study

Description

This study includes a randomized experimental component where therapists will systematically deliver an experimental behavioral probe or a supportive control condition. The aim is to evaluate effects on meaningful health-relevant measures including morning activation levels, depression symptoms, rumination, and aspects brain connectivity previously linked with depression.

Conditions

Depressive Symptoms, Caregiver Burden

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Study overview

This study includes a randomized experimental component where therapists will systematically deliver an experimental behavioral probe or a supportive control condition. The aim is to evaluate effects on meaningful health-relevant measures including morning activation levels, depression symptoms, rumination, and aspects brain connectivity previously linked with depression.

Caregiver Stress and Sleep Study

Caregiver Stress and Sleep Study

Condition
Depressive Symptoms
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Pittsburgh

UPMC Western Behavioral Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15213

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.

For general information about clinical research, read Learn About Studies.

Eligibility Criteria

  • * Age 60 years or older.
  • * Provide unpaid care to a co-residing patient with a dementia diagnosis.
  • * Reporting stress or strain delivering care
  • * No or stable pharmacotherapy for depression
  • * Meets screening definition for having morning activation difficulty or a definite morning types per the Composite Morningness Questionnaire (CMQ)
  • * Unsafe or unable to undergo MRI
  • * Active Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for mood or insomnia
  • * Probable dementia diagnosis
  • * Deadly illness or plans to leave the study area
  • * Current active substance use disorder

Ages Eligible for Study

60 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Pittsburgh,

Stephen F Smagula, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Pittsburgh

Study Record Dates

2026-12