Efficiency of an Educational Program for Informal Caregivers of Hospitalized, Dependent Patients: Cluster Randomised Trial

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Dependence, Dementias

• Registration Number: NCT01965392
• Lead Sponsor: Fundacion para la Investigacion Biomedica del Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal

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

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2009-03
• Primary Completion: 2009-12
• Study Completion: 2010-03
• Status Verified: 2013-10
• Study First Submitted: 2013-10-07
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-10-15
• Last Update Submitted: 2013-10-15
• Study First Posted: 2013-10-18
• Last Update Posted: 2013-10-18

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

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