Online Life Story Book: A study on its effect for people with early dementia and their caregivers
Not yet recruiting
- Conditions
- People with early dementia
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON27725
- Lead Sponsor
- niversiteit Twente, Story LabLivioStichting Informele ZorgUniversitair Medisch Centrum Groningen
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 106
Inclusion Criteria
Mild cognitive impairment or early dementia; living at home and receiving informal care; being mentally competent to provide informed consent
Exclusion Criteria
Past psychotrauma
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method europsychiatric symptoms (NPS) at follow-up (i.e., six months after the first measurement) are the primary outcome of the study. NPS are measured with the NeuroPsychiatric Inventory (NPI; Cummings et al., 1994).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Health related quality of life of the person with dementia is measured with the EQ5D (Brooks, 1996).<br /><br>Care consumption of the person with dementia is measured in the TOPICS-MDS (Lutomski et al., 2015).<br /><br>Caregiver Burden is measured with a Dutch questionnaire (Ervaren Druk door Informele Zorg or EDIZ; de Boer et al., 2012). <br /><br>Caregiver burden is also measured with the distress scales of the NPI (Cummings et al., 1994; De Jonghe et al., 1997). <br>The quality of life of the caregiver is measured with the CarerQol (Brouwer et al., 2006).