Intervention to Improve Social and Family Support for Caregivers of Dependent Patients
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 282
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Score in Zarit's short version test for caregiver's burden
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of this study is to determine wether a multi-factor intervention involving the primary caregiver of a dependent patient, with the goal of improving his or her social and family support and carried out by the professionals of the patient's regular PHCT, will decrease the burden and increase quality of life for the primary caregiver.
详细描述
Objective: To assess whether an intervention designed to improve the social support for caregivers effectively decreases caregivers burden and improves their quality of life.
Methodology:
Design: Controlled, multicentre, community intervention trial, with patients and their caregivers randomized to the intervention or control group according to their assigned Primary Health Care Team (PHCT).
Study area: Primary Health Care network (9 PHCTs). Study participants: Primary informal caregivers of patients receiving home health care from participating PHCTs.
Sample: Required sample size is 282 caregivers (141 from PHCTs randomized to the intervention group and 141 from PHCTs randomized to the control group.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- Single (Care Provider)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 19 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Adults (older than 18 years) identified in the eCAP database as the primary caregiver for a dependent patient, and who act as caregivers without remuneration.
- •Both the caregivers and the dependent patients have an active clinical record in a participating primary care centre.
排除标准
- •Caregivers for intermittent periods, independently of the length of care provided.
- •Caregivers who have provided less than one year of ongoing care.
- •Caregivers with any communication problem (psychiatric disorders, etc.) that makes them difficult to interview
结局指标
主要结局
Score in Zarit's short version test for caregiver's burden
时间窗: 6 months
Difference in Zarit's score in the primary caregiver for a dependent patient before and after iintervention
次要结局
- Score in caregivers social support (Medical Outcomes Study), (MOS)(6 months)