None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
In Finland several municipalities has expressed a concern about the exhaustion and solitude of caregivers. Improving their social life and well-being has been an important target for policymakers. Nutrition counseling can be an effective way to improve caregivers` well-being and health. There is evidence that improving caregivers` nutrition the nutritional state of the person receiving care can be improved as well. The purpose of this study is to study the nutrition and well-being of older caregivers (main subjects). The other purpose is to study the nutrition and quality of life of people receiving care (secondary subjects). Aims of this study: 1) To assess the nutritional status, diet, coping, quality of life, and social and psychological well-being of the caregivers aged 65 years or more 2) To study whether tailored nutrition counseling has an effect on nutritional status, diet, coping, quality of life and social and psychological well-being 3) To assess the diet and quality of life of the people aged 50 years or more receiving care and whether the caregivers`nutrition counseling has an effect on those 4) To develop policy methods to improve caregivers health and well-being in the social and health care
Interventions
The main participants in this study are caregivers aged 65 or older working at the area of the Social Services and Healthcare Centre of Pori. The caregivers are providing care in their own home. Caregivers are randomized into two groups; intervention and control groups.
On the basis of the caregivers`and patients`3-day food diaries, Mini Nutritional Assessment, home visit and nutritional survey, the nutritionist gives a individual nutrition counseling to the caregiver about their (caregiver an
The main participants in this study are caregivers aged 65 or older working at the area of the Social Services and Healthcare Centre of Pori. The caregivers are providing care in their own home. Caregivers are randomized into two groups; intervention and control groups. On the basis of the caregivers`and patients`3-day food diaries, Mini Nutritional Assessment, home visit and nutritional survey, the nutritionist gives a individual nutrition counseling to the caregiver about their (caregiver and patient) nutrition and food habits. The patient can participate to the counseling if it is possible or/and wanted. The duration of the individual nutrition counseling session is 60-90 minutes. The objective is not to change their food habits completely, but to correct possible inadequacies in their diet and to motivate. Intervention group will also have a group-based nutrition counseling 0-4 times during the half year period. The group counseling is tailored to each caregiver personally based on their needs and wishes. The patient will not attend to group counseling. The group counseling will be a small group counseling (three meetings and fourth if needed, duration two hours/session) or cooking courses (two meetings,duration 2,5 hours/session). Cooking courses will be arranged in Satakunta Martha organization. The third option is that the caregiver does not participate to the group meeting at all (if it is not possible or if they don`t want. A register of attendance at group sessions will be held. All the participants in the intervention group have an opportunity to join the facebook group where they can discuss about nutrition, health, coping an overall well-being. At the end of the study the intervention group is compared with the control group.
Sponsors
Social Services and Healthcare Centre of Pori
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
50 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Caregivers (main subjects): age 65 or more and working as a caregiver at home at the area of the Social Services and Healthcare Centre of Pori. Able to participate in group counseling. Normal cognition. Persons receiving care (secondary subjects):caregiver participates the study, age 50 or more, living at home, no parenteral nutrition, no terminal phase illness
Exclusion criteria
Caregivers (main subjects): dementia, not able to participate to group counseling, age under 65 Persons receiving care (secondary subjects): terminal phase illness, parenteral nutiriton, under 50 years old
Outcome results
None listed