Evaluation of the impact of care provided by professional caregivers on the burden of family caregivers of dependent elderly: study with random sample and control group.
Not Applicable
Recruiting
- Conditions
- mental, behaviour disordersF00-F99
- Registration Number
- RBR-4ytnzx
- Lead Sponsor
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Inclusion Criteria
The sample consists of 60-year-olds and more of both sexes, who presents disability in two or more ADLs. All of them must have a family caregiver who was responsible for supervising and caring for most of the elder's activities.
Exclusion Criteria
Elderly people with mild dependency (one or two ADLs), who live alone, even if they are dependent or who have irregular care, will be excluded.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Intervention
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Definition of outcomes (after six months of intervention):<br>Primary endpoint (1): The reduction of at least one level of family caregiver burden in the burden scale will be considered the primary endpoint.<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Secondary Outcomes:<br>• Reduction of depression symptoms - will be considered as a reduction of depressive symptoms when the score goes from nine or more, to less than nine points.<br>• Improvement of social support levels - it will be considered an improvement in social support when a category goes from unsatisfactory to satisfactory in the second evaluation and this results in a statistically significant improvement in total social support.<br>• Reduction of the risk of violence by the caregiver - reduction of a point in the CASE scale.<br>• Effectiveness of the communication application in optimizing the work of family health teams with dependent elderly people - It will be considered the number of contacts related to health problems between caregivers and teams for solutions to health problems and the percentage of problem solving.