Caring for carers of people with Parkinson's disease (C4C-PD): a multicentre randomised controlled trial of the development and evaluation of a nurse-led group-based psychological intervention for caregiver stress and distress

King's College London (UK)0 个研究点目标入组 146 人开始时间: 2009年7月21日最近更新: 2020年8月17日

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•Participants must:
•1. Be the primary caregiver for the person with Parkinson's disease and either live in the same home and/or have at least 12 hours direct care-related contact per week
•2. Be able to provide informed consent
•3. Be willing and able to attend 8 weekly or fortnightly sessions
•4. Score 5 or more ('case' level problems) using binary (0/1) scoring on the 28-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28)
•5. Be aged 18 years or older (no upper age limit), males or females

•Participants will be excluded if they:
•1. Lack sufficient spoken language skills and literacy to meaningfully engage with the sessions or complete treatment related activities between sessions
•2. Are felt unlikely to comply with the 'rules' that typically apply to participants in group-based interventions (e.g. maintaining confidentiality, allowing others to speak)
•3. They have received psychological therapy or a course of counselling in the past year, are currently receiving treatment or counselling, or plan to start in the next year

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King's College London (UK)