Further enabling care at home for people living with dementia
Withdrawn
- Conditions
- DementiaNeurological - Dementias
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12616000467437
- Lead Sponsor
- Christine Toye
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Withdrawn
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 308
Inclusion Criteria
Patient/carer dyads when the patient has a documented diagnosis of dementia and is being discharged from the included hospital, the discharge destination is their home or that of the family carer, and when the (family) carer can speak, read, and understand English
Exclusion Criteria
Patient being discharged to another hospital or into residential aged care, Family carer not able to speak, read, and understand English.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The primary outcome is carers' preparedness for caregiving, to be measured with the Preparedness for Caregiving Scale (PCS)(1)<br><br>Reference:<br>.1. Archbold PG, Stewart BJ, Greenlick MR, Harvath T. Mutuality and preparedness as predictors of caregiver role strain. Research in Nursing & Health. 1990;13(6):375-84.[Time 1 (T1) will be up to 5 days after discharge, T2 will be 5 weeks after discharge, T3 will be 10 weeks after discharge. Preparedness will be measured at all time points.]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method