Efficiency of an Educational Program for Informal Caregivers of Hospitalized, Dependent Patients: Cluster Randomised Trial
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Dependence, Dementias
- Interventions
- Other: Health education intervention
- Registration Number
- NCT01965392
- Brief Summary
The aim was to assess whether nursing interventions based on Health Educational Programs for primary informal caregivers of dependent patients may improve their quality of life, decreasing emotional burden and increasing caregiving knowledge, in order to better meet patients' basic needs.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 151
Inclusion Criteria
- Primary informal caregivers of dependent patients, admitted in 30 hospital units, with expected hospital stays of at least one week. A dependent patient is understood to require the aid of someone else in order to carry out basic daily activities.
Exclusion Criteria
- caregivers with cognitive deficits that could be an obstacle for adequate verbal understanding, illiteracy, persons taking part in other clinical trials or who had taken part in similar workshops in the previous two years, as well as health professionals.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description healtn education Health education intervention one group received an educational program
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method life quality Data were evaluated with an average one month after discharge, a maximum in September 2009
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Caregiver´s burden Data were evaluated with an average one month after discharge, a maximum in September 2009