Collateral Effects of Pandemics - Care for Informal Caregivers
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- Enrolling By Invitation
- 入组人数
- 400
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Depression
研究概览
简要总结
The study is a workpackage in the German research consortium COLLPAN. The study will map collateral effects in terms of psychosocial and spiritual burden of informal caregivers during after the pandemic and identification/mapping of risk factors.It will also map available therapeutic and preventive interventions and relief of this burden for the present situation and for future pandemics.
详细描述
a scoping literature review will compile evidence on informal caregiver burden during and after the pandemic (PubMed, PsychInfo, Cochrane Database). The aim of the review is to gain knowledge on frequency, severity, source and circumstances of care givers' burden and to identify research and supportive gaps.
The study will recruit family members and care givers of patients with COVID-19 or long-COVID as well as bereaved family members and care givers of patients who have died during the pandemic in order to assess severity of burden. Recruitment will be done in collaboration with the German Association of Undertakers and the Federal Association for Bereavement Care. Family members and caregivers will be asked to complete a survey with instruments on bereavement burden (PG- 13), distress (PHQ-9; GAD-7) and care giver symptoms (IPOS; MIDOS-2). The survey will be available online (using SoSciSurvey platform) or as a paper and pencil version. Survey participants will be invited to in-depth interviews.
Recruitment of 200 participants each for caregiving of COVID-19 patients and bereaved family members will be targeted. Interviews are planned with 30 participants in each group or until saturation is reached.
Based on findings, recommendations on interventions to support family care givers will be developed
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Case Only
- 时间视角
- Retrospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •having cared for a patient with COVID-19 in the first year of the pandemic (March to December 2021)
排除标准
- •not fluent in German
结局指标
主要结局
Depression
时间窗: Baseline
standardized instrument on depression (PHQ-9)
Caregiving burden
时间窗: Baseline
standardized instrument on caregiver symptoms (MIDOS-2).
Bereavement burden
时间窗: Baseline
standardized instrument on bereavement burden (PG- 13)
Anxiety
时间窗: Baseline
standardized instrument on anxiety (GAD-7)
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Lukas Radbruch
Director Department of Palliative Medicine, University Hospital Bonn
University of Bonn