Improving caregivers nutrition and well-being with tailored nutrition counseling – a randomised, controlled trial (RCT)

Completed

• Conditions: Depression; Diet and Nutrition - Other diet and nutrition disorders; Malnutrition; Loneliness; Mental burden; Poor quality of life; Mental Health - Other mental health disorders; Mental Health - Depression

• Registration Number: ACTRN12615001254583
• Lead Sponsor: Social Services and Healthcare Centre of Pori

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2015-11-16
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 102

Inclusion Criteria

Caregivers (main subjects): age 65 or more and working as a caregiver at home at the area of the Social Services and Healthcare Centre of Pori. Able to participate in group counseling. Normal cognition.

Persons receiving care (secondary subjects):caregiver participates the study, age 50 or more, living at home, no parenteral nutrition, no terminal phase illness

Exclusion Criteria

Caregivers (main subjects): dementia, not able to participate to group counseling, age under 65

Persons receiving care (secondary subjects): terminal phase illness, parenteral nutiriton, under 50 years old

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Protein intake assessed by 3 day food diaries and analysed Fineli (www.fineli.fi) (Caregivers and persons receiving care)[Three day food diary completed at 6 months post randomization ];Health related quality of life with RAND-36 (Caregivers)[ assessed with RAND-36at 6 months post randomization];Health related quality of life with 15D (persons receiving care)[ assessed with 15D at 6 months post randomization]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Social factors with Social Provision Scale (Caregivers)[assessed with Social Provision Scale at 6 months post randomization];Nutritional status with MNA (Caregivers)[assessed with MNA at 6 months post randomization];Depression with GDS-15 (Caregivers)[assessed with GDS-15 at 6 months post randomization];Health related quality of life with 15D (Caregivers)[assessed with 15D at 6 months post randomization]