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Empowering Dementia Carers With an iSupport Virtual Assistant (e-DiVA) in Asia-Pacific Regional Countries: Protocol for a Pilot Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial
BACKGROUND: Dementia is a global public health priority with an estimated prevalence of 150 million by 2050, nearly two-thirds of whom will live in the Asia-Pacific region. Dementia creates significant care needs for people with the disease, their families, and carers. iSupport is a self-help platfo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8663455/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34783660 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/33572 |
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author | Nguyen, Tuan Anh Tran, Kham Esterman, Adrian Brijnath, Bianca Xiao, Lily Dongxia Schofield, Penelope Bhar, Sunil Wickramasinghe, Nilmini Sinclair, Ronald Dang, Thu Ha Cullum, Sarah Turana, Yuda Hinton, Ladson Seeher, Katrin Andrade, Andre Q Crotty, Maria Kurrle, Susan Freel, Stefanie Pham, Thang Nguyen, Thanh Binh Brodaty, Henry |
author_facet | Nguyen, Tuan Anh Tran, Kham Esterman, Adrian Brijnath, Bianca Xiao, Lily Dongxia Schofield, Penelope Bhar, Sunil Wickramasinghe, Nilmini Sinclair, Ronald Dang, Thu Ha Cullum, Sarah Turana, Yuda Hinton, Ladson Seeher, Katrin Andrade, Andre Q Crotty, Maria Kurrle, Susan Freel, Stefanie Pham, Thang Nguyen, Thanh Binh Brodaty, Henry |
author_sort | Nguyen, Tuan Anh |
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description | BACKGROUND: Dementia is a global public health priority with an estimated prevalence of 150 million by 2050, nearly two-thirds of whom will live in the Asia-Pacific region. Dementia creates significant care needs for people with the disease, their families, and carers. iSupport is a self-help platform developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to provide education, skills training, and support to dementia carers. It has been adapted in some contexts (Australia, India, the Netherlands, and Portugal). Carers using the existing adapted versions have identified the need to have a more user-friendly version that enables them to identify solutions for immediate problems quickly in real time. The iSupport virtual assistant (iSupport VA) is being developed to address this gap and will be evaluated in a randomized controlled trial (RCT). OBJECTIVE: This paper reports the protocol of a pilot RCT evaluating the iSupport VA. METHODS: Seven versions of iSupport VA will be evaluated in Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, and Vietnam in a pilot RCT. Feasibility, acceptability, intention to use, and preliminary impact on carer-perceived stress of the iSupport VA intervention will be assessed. RESULTS: This study was funded by the e-ASIA Joint Research Program in November 2020. From January to July 2023, we will enroll 140 dementia carers (20 carers per iSupport VA version) for the pilot RCT. The study has been approved by the Human Research Committee, University of South Australia, Australia (203455). CONCLUSIONS: This protocol outlines how a technologically enhanced version of the WHO iSupport program—the iSupport VA—will be evaluated. The findings from this intervention study will provide evidence on the feasibility and acceptability of the iSupport VA intervention, which will be the basis for conducting a full RCT to assess the effectiveness of the iSupport VA. The study will be an important reference for countries planning to adapt and enhance the WHO iSupport program using digital health solutions. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12621001452886; https://tinyurl.com/afum5tjz INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): PRR1-10.2196/33572 |
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spelling | pubmed-86634552022-01-05 Empowering Dementia Carers With an iSupport Virtual Assistant (e-DiVA) in Asia-Pacific Regional Countries: Protocol for a Pilot Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial Nguyen, Tuan Anh Tran, Kham Esterman, Adrian Brijnath, Bianca Xiao, Lily Dongxia Schofield, Penelope Bhar, Sunil Wickramasinghe, Nilmini Sinclair, Ronald Dang, Thu Ha Cullum, Sarah Turana, Yuda Hinton, Ladson Seeher, Katrin Andrade, Andre Q Crotty, Maria Kurrle, Susan Freel, Stefanie Pham, Thang Nguyen, Thanh Binh Brodaty, Henry JMIR Res Protoc Protocol BACKGROUND: Dementia is a global public health priority with an estimated prevalence of 150 million by 2050, nearly two-thirds of whom will live in the Asia-Pacific region. Dementia creates significant care needs for people with the disease, their families, and carers. iSupport is a self-help platform developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to provide education, skills training, and support to dementia carers. It has been adapted in some contexts (Australia, India, the Netherlands, and Portugal). Carers using the existing adapted versions have identified the need to have a more user-friendly version that enables them to identify solutions for immediate problems quickly in real time. The iSupport virtual assistant (iSupport VA) is being developed to address this gap and will be evaluated in a randomized controlled trial (RCT). OBJECTIVE: This paper reports the protocol of a pilot RCT evaluating the iSupport VA. METHODS: Seven versions of iSupport VA will be evaluated in Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, and Vietnam in a pilot RCT. Feasibility, acceptability, intention to use, and preliminary impact on carer-perceived stress of the iSupport VA intervention will be assessed. RESULTS: This study was funded by the e-ASIA Joint Research Program in November 2020. From January to July 2023, we will enroll 140 dementia carers (20 carers per iSupport VA version) for the pilot RCT. The study has been approved by the Human Research Committee, University of South Australia, Australia (203455). CONCLUSIONS: This protocol outlines how a technologically enhanced version of the WHO iSupport program—the iSupport VA—will be evaluated. The findings from this intervention study will provide evidence on the feasibility and acceptability of the iSupport VA intervention, which will be the basis for conducting a full RCT to assess the effectiveness of the iSupport VA. The study will be an important reference for countries planning to adapt and enhance the WHO iSupport program using digital health solutions. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12621001452886; https://tinyurl.com/afum5tjz INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): PRR1-10.2196/33572 JMIR Publications 2021-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8663455/ /pubmed/34783660 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/33572 Text en ©Tuan Anh Nguyen, Kham Tran, Adrian Esterman, Bianca Brijnath, Lily Dongxia Xiao, Penelope Schofield, Sunil Bhar, Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Ronald Sinclair, Thu Ha Dang, Sarah Cullum, Yuda Turana, Ladson Hinton, Katrin Seeher, Andre Q Andrade, Maria Crotty, Susan Kurrle, Stefanie Freel, Thang Pham, Thanh Binh Nguyen, Henry Brodaty. Originally published in JMIR Research Protocols (https://www.researchprotocols.org), 16.11.2021. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Research Protocols, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on https://www.researchprotocols.org, as well as this copyright and license information must be included. |
spellingShingle | Protocol Nguyen, Tuan Anh Tran, Kham Esterman, Adrian Brijnath, Bianca Xiao, Lily Dongxia Schofield, Penelope Bhar, Sunil Wickramasinghe, Nilmini Sinclair, Ronald Dang, Thu Ha Cullum, Sarah Turana, Yuda Hinton, Ladson Seeher, Katrin Andrade, Andre Q Crotty, Maria Kurrle, Susan Freel, Stefanie Pham, Thang Nguyen, Thanh Binh Brodaty, Henry Empowering Dementia Carers With an iSupport Virtual Assistant (e-DiVA) in Asia-Pacific Regional Countries: Protocol for a Pilot Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial |
title | Empowering Dementia Carers With an iSupport Virtual Assistant (e-DiVA) in Asia-Pacific Regional Countries: Protocol for a Pilot Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial |
title_full | Empowering Dementia Carers With an iSupport Virtual Assistant (e-DiVA) in Asia-Pacific Regional Countries: Protocol for a Pilot Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial |
title_fullStr | Empowering Dementia Carers With an iSupport Virtual Assistant (e-DiVA) in Asia-Pacific Regional Countries: Protocol for a Pilot Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial |
title_full_unstemmed | Empowering Dementia Carers With an iSupport Virtual Assistant (e-DiVA) in Asia-Pacific Regional Countries: Protocol for a Pilot Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial |
title_short | Empowering Dementia Carers With an iSupport Virtual Assistant (e-DiVA) in Asia-Pacific Regional Countries: Protocol for a Pilot Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial |
title_sort | empowering dementia carers with an isupport virtual assistant (e-diva) in asia-pacific regional countries: protocol for a pilot multisite randomized controlled trial |
topic | Protocol |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8663455/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34783660 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/33572 |
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