ChiCTR2300074683招募中1 期
Application of caregiver intervention program for Chinese dementia patients’ caregiver in Hong Kong
未提供1 个研究点 分布在 1 个国家开始时间: 2023年8月7日最近更新:
试验速览
- 阶段
- 1 期
- 状态
- 招募中
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- 醫院焦慮憂鬱量表
研究概览
简要总结
To examine the locally adapted START dementia caregiver intervention and examine its clinical effectiveness in reducing depressive and anxiety symptoms and caregiver's stress
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 主要目的
- 随机平行对照
- 盲法
- Nil
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 至 —（—）
- 性别
- All
入选标准
- •The current study targets to recruit caregiver with dementia person in their family. The dementia person could be either taking care of the dementia person by the family or partially taking care by day care centre/other form of similar service in Hong Kong. The caregiver has to provide stable care towards the dementia person and regard themselves as a caregiver. Caregiver who lives with the dementia person or live separately could both be accepted. Caregivers are required to have basic literacy ability in Chinese to read the manuals and questionnaires. With reference to the previous
- •research insight, we would recruit participants with a level of distress in caregiving in order to enhance the relevance of the therapy to the caregivers and to prevent the floor effect in the results. The short form of Zarit Burden Scale (Tang et al., 2016) would be used as a screening tool on the level of distress of the caregivers. With reference to the previous research on the scales (Yu et al., 2019; Bédard et al, 2001, & Tang et al., 2016), the cut-off score would be 19 or
排除标准
- •Due to the nature of the intervention programme, caregivers with dementia person staying in elderly home or having an active plan of letting the dementia person to be institutionalized will be excluded in the current study. Besides, caregivers with significant mental disorders e.g. schizophrenia or significant health conditions e.g. cancer, which affects their participation and application of the skills learnt in the programme, will also be excluded. Caregivers who are non-Chinese speaking or fail to read the manuals are not likely to be beneficial by the programme, hence they will not be
- •recruited. Lastly, if the dementia person has significant difficulty to give any conscious response, the caregiver would be regarded as not suitable to be a participant of the study.
研究组 & 干预措施
Treatment Group
结局指标
主要结局
醫院焦慮憂鬱量表
廣東話短版沙氏負擔訪問
次要结局
- 簡明因應量表
- 服務滿意程度量表
- 腦精神科徵狀問卷
- 痴呆症臨床評估問卷
研究者
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