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Seeking the balance between caregiving, family, and employment: the experiences of informal caregivers of people with dementia

Conditions
Reconciliation between informal caregiving in dementia, family, and employment from a network-perspective and in consideration of the personal characteristics of the informal caregivers.
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Z56
Z59
Z60
Z63
Z73
Dementia in Alzheimer disease
Problems related to employment and unemployment
Problems related to housing and economic circumstances
Registration Number
DRKS00012929
Lead Sponsor
niversitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf Institut für Gesundheitsökonomie und Versorgungsforschung
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Complete
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
19
Inclusion Criteria

Written informed consent; involved in caring/supervision of the individual with dementia (i.e., study participants undertake caring tasks like bathing or dressing, household tasks, and/or support in the care-related decision-making); living in Hamburg, Lower-Saxony and/or Schleswig-Holstein; appropiate German language skills; no cognitive impairments

Exclusion Criteria

The cared-for individual with dementia is not living at home (e.g., she/he is living in a nursing home)

Study & Design

Study Type
observational
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Themes and types based on the narratives of study participants regarding the reconciliation between informal caregiving in dementia, family, and employment. Here, study participants will be interviewed once (by using a narrative interview).
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
care-related strain (CarerQoL, ZBI), evaluation of life satisfaction (CarerQoL-VAS, EQ-5D), personality traits (NEO-FFI-30, ASKU), coping skills (PCI). These outcomes will be measured once after the interview (primary outcome) by using the named questionnaires (in brackets).
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