Self-Care Training for Family Caregivers of Persons With Neurodegeneration

10-item Likert-type scale that measured level of distress in the past month. The questionnaire will be modified to cover the past 2 weeks. Higher scores (range 0-40) indicate greater perceived stress.

A 20-item Likert-type questionnaire that measures presence of depressive symptoms in the past week. Higher scores (range 0-60) indicate greater depressive symptoms.

A 22-item Likert-type scale that measures distress surrounding the caregiver role. Greater scores (range 0-88) indicate greater caregiver burden.

The flanker task is a classic test of inhibitory control, in which participants are asked to indicate the direction in which a central arrow points while ignoring an array of "flanking" arrows. Flanker interference (difference in reaction times between congruent and incongruent trials for the correct responses, incongruent-congruent) will be calculated with greater scores indicating greater interference.

Blood samples will be collected to measure biomarkers of biological stress to create an allostatic load (AL) index. Using the count-based calculation method, biomarker values that fall above the 75th percentile of the sample distribution are categorized as 1 and those below the 75th percentile are categorized as 0; except for DHEA-S, HDL cholesterol, which are categorized as 1 for values that fall below the 25th percentile and 0 for values that fall above the 25th percentile (Seeman et al., 1997). Subsystem scores (metabolic, immune, cardiovascular, neuroendocrine) are created by summing the relative biomarker scores and a total AL index score is calculated by summing all biomarker scores. Greater AL index score indicates greater cumulative biological stress.

A 16-item Likert-type scale that measure subjective, trait emotion-regulation ability. Participant respond to questions on a 5-point Likert scale with higher scores (range 16-80) indicating greater emotion dysregulation.

A 24-item Likert-type questionnaire that measures the 5 facets of trait mindfulness. Subscale scores range from 8 to 40 for the observing, describing, acting with awareness, and non-judging facets, or 7 to 35 for the non-reacting facet, resulting in an overall FFMQ score range of 39 to 195. Higher scores indicate greater trait mindfulness.

This 7-item scale measures the extent to which an individual regards their life chances as being under their personal control. Responses are given on a four-point Likert scale ranging from "Strongly Disagree" to "Strongly Agree"

26-item Likert type scale the measures self-compassion, with higher scores (range 1-5) indicating greater self-compassion.

26-item questionnaire that measures satisfaction with quality of life, health and other areas of the respondent's life.Higher scores (range 0-100) indicate greater quality of life.

Questionnaire to assess perceived change driven by participation in a stress reduction program. Will be administered to those in the psychoeducation and mindfulness condition only.

A 29-item scale designed to measure fears and resistances to engaging in mindfulness practice. Items are rated on a five-point Likert scale ranging from 1: Not at all like me to 5 (extremely like me). Will be completed by mindfulness condition only.