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The Black Immigrant Project
Recruiting
Exploring an Adapted Active Caregiving: Empowering Skills (ACES) Intervention for High-Risk Care Partners
Who can join
Ages 18 and older · All sexes
Full eligibility criteria
Person with dementia: Inclusion Criteria: * Family or self-identified report of dementia/memory loss, * Score \<3 on the Six-item Screener. * Age 50 or older. * Ability to communicate in English. * Identify as a Black immigrant. * Ability to give verbal assent. Exclusion Criteria * Under age 50. * Not a Black immigrant. * Cannot communicate in English. * Unable to give verbal assent. Caregiver: Inclusion criteria: * Black immigrant care partner of persons with AD/ADRD. * Age 18 or older. * Ability to communicate in English. * Identify as a first/second-generation Black immigrant. * Have had at least 6 months of caregiving (any help or assistance provided to a relative related to dementia/memory loss). Exclusion Criteria * Under age 18. * Not first/second generation Black immigrant. * Cannot communicate in English. * Has less than 6 months of caregiving to a relative with dementia/memory loss.
About the study
This stage I trial will examine if the culturally adapted ACES intervention affects cognitive appraisal (self-efficacy and dysfunctional thoughts) and behavioral activation with Black immigrant living with dementia and their care partners over a 1-month and 3-month period.
What is being tested
- Active Caregiving: Enhancing Skills (other)
Sponsor: University of Minnesota · Participants: 150 · Started: Mar 1, 2026
Contact the study team
- Manka Nkimbeng, PhD · Phone: 612-624-3904
Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT07546708
Locations in the U.S.
| Minnesota | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis |
Conditions
From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 30, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.