ow-threshold family assistance in dementia in a rural area

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• Conditions: Family care in dementiadementia; F00; Dementia in Alzheimer disease

• Registration Number: DRKS00004260
• Lead Sponsor: Zentrum für Geriatrie und Gerontologie Freiburg Universitätsklinkum Freiburg

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-07-25
• Study Completion: 2014-12-31
• Results First Posted: 2016-10-14
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Complete
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 76

Inclusion Criteria

Informed consent of families living in the rural region Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in southwest Germany concerned with the informal care for a person with dementia. All types of dementia are included.

Exclusion Criteria

no dementia, no informed consent

Study & Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Burden of informal caregivers: Berliner Inventar zur Angehörigenbelastung – Demenz in week 0, 16 and 26 (Zank et al. 2006).

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
In week 0, 16 and 26<br><br>Quality of Life of the patients: Quality of Life-Alzheimer’s Disease Scale (Thorgrimsen et al. 2003)<br><br>Quality of Life of the cargivers: SF-12 (Bullinger & Kirchberger, 1998) <br><br>Resource Utilization in Dementia, Wimo & Nordberg 2007)<br><br>Until week 124: nursing home admission