- Research team: Principal investigator Mustafa Yildiz, PhD. Co-investigator Carolyn Pickering, PhD, RN.
- Overview: The goal of this project is to revise and validate the Caregiver-Provider Relationship Assessment to improve accuracy, thereby laying the groundwork for interventions to improve communication skills among healthcare providers and caregivers.
- Funding sponsor: National Institute on Aging
- Budget: $312,000
- Project period: 1, 2026-Aug. 31, 2028
Exploring static subsyndromes and dynamic symptom clusters of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia using Bayesian Network Analysis
- Research team: Mustafa Yildiz PhD, Principal Investigator, Carolyn Pickering, Ph.D., RN, Co-Investigator.
- Overview: This project is designed to discover dependencies among behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). The outcomes of the study will be directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that will identify the parent and child nodes of BPSDs. In an earlier study, we distinguished between subsyndromes and symptom clusters of BPSDs. This study will focus on both BPSD types.
- Funding sponsor: Texas Alzheimer’s Research and Care Consortium
- Project period: 01/01/2026-12/31/2027
- Budget: $232,842
