Tele-Mindfulness for Dementia's Family Caregivers: a Randomized Trial With a Usual Care Control Group

Family caregivers were recruited through a combinations of strategies including a larger caregiving project and its partners, memory clinics, community outreach, online advertisement, flyers and brochures and word of mouth. After the telephone screening, eligible individuals were scheduled for an in-person baseline meeting at which they received additional information about the study, signed a consent form, completed baseline outcome measures and then were randomized to the intervention or control group using an online randomization program (http://www.graphpad.com/quickcalcs/index.cfm). All participants completed outcome measures immediately post-intervention for the intervention group and at 2 months for the control group and all participants completed follow-up outcome measures at 3 month following the baseline assessment. Participants in the intervention group completed a practice log which was designed to track their daily practice of mindfulness at home. The study was reviewed and approved by the Mount Sinai Hospital Research Ethics Board.