Supporting Older People's Informal CAREgivers at Home Through InCARE Programme
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 入组人数
- 158
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Empowerment to self-care in informal caregivers
研究概览
简要总结
Background: More than 42% of older people (aged +65) have a stroke and most of them require some type of help to self-care at home. Informal caregivers have reported different types of need and have shown dissatisfaction with technical and emotional support delivered by community health teams. Furthermore, empowering informal caregivers who care after older stroke survivors is an important challenge, preventing them from negative outcomes such as burden, anxiety and depression or loss of physical function or hospitalization in older people.
Objectives: This pilot study aims to implement and evaluate the impact of an intervention based on training and telephone support delivered to informal caregivers who care after older people post-stroke.
Setting: Community health units in Northern Portugal region. Design/Methods: This single blinded randomized trial will be delivered by a community nursing team to informal caregivers 1 week, 1 and 3 months after a hospital discharge.
Study outcome(s): The primary outcomes will be informal caregivers´ empowerment. Secondary outcomes will include burden and health quality of life in caregivers; functionality, hospital readmission and institutionalization of older people stroke survivors, measured 1 and 3 months after intervention.
Results/Conclusion: Data collection started in February and will be concluded in August 2014. First results will be published at the beginning of 2015. The InCARE programme will be the first pilot in informal caregivers study ever conducted in Portugal. It will highlight new ways to support caregivers who take care of older people after a stroke. If successful, this study will be translational and it will also allow to disseminate the results in Portugal and abroad and implement it as best practice.
详细描述
InCare study has a purpose to implement and evaluate an intervention delivered to informal caregivers who care for older people after a stroke.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- Single (Care Provider)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 65 Years 至 —（Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Informal caregivers are eligible to participate in the InCARE programme if they meet the following inclusion criteria: (i) to be able to communicate and learn (2) not to have a cognitive disease; (3) to live in the Cávado Region covered by ACES I, II and III; (4) to return the informed consent. In addition, older stroke survivors will enter in this study if they had a stroke for the 1st time and which have become dependent for activities of daily living.
排除标准
- •Involvement in the InCARE programme requires to communicate frequently, face to face or on the phone, with the nursing staff. Informal caregivers will also be excluded in all the situations in which the provision of older people care is taken by formal support.
结局指标
主要结局
Empowerment to self-care in informal caregivers
时间窗: 65 years
The primary outcomes will be informal caregivers´ empowerment to self-care. measured by ECPICID-AVC tool. This outcome will be measure 1 week and 1 month post discharge at home. The primary analysis will be performed according to the intention-to-treat principle.
次要结局
- Burden(65)
- Health quality of life(65)