Reducing Suicide Risk Among Aging Caregivers of Persons With AD/ADRD

Description

This project aims to adapt, implement, and evaluate a Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills training group intervention for aging adult family caregivers of person with Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) to reduce suicidality. By adapting this modality, the investigators will provide a scalable intervention tailored for this high-risk population, maximizing the public health impact and improving suicide prevention.

Conditions

Suicide, Depression, Caregiver Burden, Physical Health, Inflammation

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Study overview

This project aims to adapt, implement, and evaluate a Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills training group intervention for aging adult family caregivers of person with Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) to reduce suicidality. By adapting this modality, the investigators will provide a scalable intervention tailored for this high-risk population, maximizing the public health impact and improving suicide prevention.

Reducing Suicide Risk Among Aging Caregivers of Persons With AD/ADRD: Adapting, Implementing, and Evaluating Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training Interventions

Reducing Suicide Risk Among Aging Caregivers of Persons With AD/ADRD

Condition
Suicide
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Lubbock

Garrison Institute on Aging, Lubbock, Texas, United States, 79413

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

  • * being age 50 and over (as most informal caregivers of persons with AD/ADRD are 50 or older; AARP, 2020; Chi et al., 2019)
  • * being the primary informal caregiver
  • * living with an AD/ADRD-diagnosed patient
  • * being willing to be prodded for bloodspots
  • * demonstrating English-fluency
  • * endorsing a direct or indirect SI/suicide risk
  • * Eligible individuals will score above clinical cutoffs for SI/suicide risk on at least 1 of 3 measures: the Suicide Behavior Questionnaire-R (SBQ-R; score \> 6; Osman et al., 2002), Interpersonal Needs Question-naire (INQ; thwarted belonging score \> 35; and perceived burden \> 17; Mitchell et al., 2020) or the Geriatric De-pression Scale (GDS; score \> 5 Heisel et al., 2005).

Ages Eligible for Study

50 Years to 120 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

Texas Tech University,

Study Record Dates

2026-08-31