A Psychosocial Intervention for Bereaved Spousal Caregivers of Persons With Dementia: Adapting the "Finding Balance" Tool
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 16
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Inventory of Daily Widowed Life (IDWL)- change at 1 and 2 months post-intervention
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a writing intervention (Reclaiming Yourself), intended to facilitate bereavement for spousal caregivers whose partners died with dementia.
详细描述
The current research is part 3 of a multi-phase project, whose purpose was to examine the experience of bereavement for spousal caregivers to persons with dementia. Based on spouses' shared experiences and the input of experts in the field (i.e. bereavement/dementia researchers, health care providers), an existing writing intervention called the Finding Balance tool was adapted from the context of cancer bereavement to that of dementia.
The purpose of this third phase is to test this adapted writing intervention (Reclaiming Yourself) with bereaved spouses of persons with dementia. Participants will be randomly assigned into one of two groups: treatment (who will receive the tool); and control (who will not be offered the tool until a later stage). The feasibility and acceptability of the intervention will be assessed, as well as the degree to which it facilitated participants' bereavement, ability to find balance, and psychological health.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 60 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •bereaved for three months or longer
- •were a caregiver for their spouse with advanced dementia
- •English speaking
- •willing and able to share their bereavement experience
排除标准
- •those with other than a spousal relationship to the person with dementia
- •spousal caregivers of persons with another terminal disease
- •those bereaved less than 3 months
- •those unable to provide consent
研究组 & 干预措施
Writing intervention
干预措施: the Reclaiming Yourself tool (Behavioral)
Control
结局指标
主要结局
Inventory of Daily Widowed Life (IDWL)- change at 1 and 2 months post-intervention
时间窗: The measure will be administered pre-intervention, 1 month following the introduction of the intervention, and 2 months following the introduction of the intervention
Measure of finding balance in bereavement
Texas Revised Inventory of Grief, Present Feelings- change at 1 and 2 months post-intervention
时间窗: The measure will be administered pre-intervention, 1 month following the introduction of the intervention, and 2 months following the introduction of the intervention
Measure of grief
Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale- Revised (CESD-R)- change at 1 and 2 months post-intervention
时间窗: The measure will be administered pre-intervention, 1 month following the introduction of the intervention, and 2 months following the introduction of the intervention
Measure of depressive symptoms
次要结局
- Semi-structured qualitative evaluation interviews(Post intervention (after 1 month))
研究者
Shelley Peacock
Assistant Professor, College of Nursing
University of Saskatchewan