Un Protocollo di Studio Per l'Assessment Dell'Efficacia Dello Storytelling Audio Trasformativo Per Caregiver Informale (A Protocol for Assessing the Feasibility of Transformative Audio Storytelling for Informal Caregivers)
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
- Enrollment
- 21
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Sense of Coherence Scale revised (SOC-R)
Study Overview
Brief Summary
Pilot testing the feasibility of the Transformative Audio Storytelling approach for informal caregivers, as an innovative method for delivering potentially empowering mental health narratives.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Na
- Intervention Model
- Single Group
- Primary Purpose
- Supportive Care
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •Informal caregiver (family members or significant other person who provides primary care for the patients visiting or being hospitalized in the Rehabilitation Ward)
- •Age ≥18 years
- •Native speaker of the Italian language
- •Having voluntarily agreed to participate in the study and having signed the informed consent in all its points.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Informal caregiver for children
- •Informal caregiver who does not personally play this role (primary caregiver)
- •Informal caregiver of adults with a tumor pathological condition
Arms & Interventions
Audio Storytelling
15 minutes transformative audio storytelling session
Intervention: Audio Storytelling (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Sense of Coherence Scale revised (SOC-R)
Time Frame: pre-post (15 minutes) intervention
The SOC-R is a tool composed of 13 items on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 - "Not at all true" to 5 - "Extremely true".
Meaning in Life (MLQ)
Time Frame: pre-post (15 minutes) intervention
The MLQ is a questionnaire composed of 10 items to evaluate meaning of life. The MLQ uses 7-step Likert scales from 1 "Absolutely true" to "Absolutely not true".
Perceived Stress Scale
Time Frame: pre-post (15 minutes) intervention
The PSS is a questionnaire consisting of 10 items, on a 5-step Likert scale, ranging from 0, "Never" to 4, "Very Often". A total score of the 10 items provides a general measure of perceived stress. PPS items rate thoughts and feelings about the past month.
Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ)
Time Frame: pre-post (15 minutes) intervention
The CERQ is a questionnaire composed of 27 items, consisting of 5-step Likert scales, from 1 - "almost never" to 5 "almost always"
Burden Scale for Family Caregivers - Short Form (BSFC-s)
Time Frame: pre-post (15 minutes) intervention
The BSFC-s is a 10-item 4-step Likert scale ranging from (0) "Strongly disagree" to (4) Strongly agree.
Facial expressions responses (Noldus FaceReader)
Time Frame: during 15 minutes intervention session
this facial expression recognition software includes the evaluation of six basic expressions and then calculates the drive, valence, arousal, gaze direction, head orientation and other additional characteristics such as age and the sex
Secondary Outcomes
- Feedback on the perceived value of audio storytelling(after 15 minutes intervention sessions)