Family Meetings in Memory Clinics
- Conditions
- dementia caregivers, family meetings, psychosocial interventionmantelzorgers, dementie, familiegesprekken, psycho-sociale interventie
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON22525
- Lead Sponsor
- VU University medical center Amsterdam/EMGO-Institute
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 172
1. Family caregiver who takes primary responsibility for the informal care of a community dwelling patient with a clinical diagnosis of dementia and who lives in the same region as the patient. We only include spouses, children (-in-law), brothers and sisters of the patient.
2. In each family, at least one other family member lives in the same region of the patient and caregiver.
3. Both caregiver and patient have sufficient language proficiency in Dutch for adequate participation in meetings, interviews and tests.
4. Written informed consent from both patient and caregiver is obtained. In case of mental incompetence of a patient the family caregiver will sign the consent for the patient.
1. Severe somatic or psychiatric co-morbidity of either caregiver or patient, which will significantly impair cooperation to the program.
2. Either caregiver or patient participates in other intervention studies at inclusion or during the study.
3. Scheduled to move a patient to a nursing home.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Incidence of major depression and anxiety disorders (i.e. generalised anxiety and panic) as defined according to DSM-IV criteria.<br>2. Dimension/severity of anxiety and depression symptoms.<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Caregiver<br>1. Caregiver Burden.<br>2. Quality of life<br><br>Additional psychological questionnaires are used to explore profiles of caregivers who are best helped by the intervention<br><br>Patients<br>1. Depressive symptoms in patients (NPI)<br>2. Quality of life<br><br>Other:<br>1. (in)direct costs caregiver and patient<br>2. time until institutionalization<br>