eeds and demands of informal caregivers [Bedürfnisse und Bedarfe pflegender Angehöriger]

Not Applicable

• Conditions: eeds and individual demands of informal caregivers; Not Applicable

• Registration Number: ISRCTN15128297
• Lead Sponsor: Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Gesundheit und Pflege (StMGP)

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2023-10-02
• Last Update Posted: 29 July 2024
• Study Completion: 2024-12-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Ongoing
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 995

Inclusion Criteria

The participants are adult informal caregivers in the German federal state of Bavaria (Freistaat Bayern) who submitted an initial application for a care degree or an application for an increase in the care degree for the person being cared for. During the precursor study ProCare (https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN1339092), 25,000 persons were contacted by the care advisors of the Medizinischer Dienst Bayern (MD Bayern) in the course of an assessment interview from September to December 2022 and received the first questionnaire. Participants of the current study are all persons who filled out the first questionnaire and gave their consent for further questionnaires.

Exclusion Criteria

Does not meet the inclusion critera

Study & Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Reasons for using or not using support services and care counselling, measured using self-report questionnaires 12 months and 18 months after the distribution of the first questionnaire in the ProCare project (https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN13390923).<br>2. Aspects of individual quality of life and spiritual needs of informal caregivers, measured using qualitative interviews at baseline and (for approx. 35 of the approx. 50 people to be interviewed) also 12 months later.