Dementia
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention group:knowledge and skills for daily care,peer support and resource utilization,caregiver self-management
Control group:None
Sponsors
Wenzhou Medical University
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Family caregiver: (1) aged 18 years or older; (2) self-identified as the primary family caregiver of older adults with dementia residing together at the same home; (3) providing care for PWD at least 4 hours per day for at least the past 6 months; (4) able to read and communicate in the Chinese. Care recipients(CR): (1) met the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorder (Fourth Edition, Text Revision) (American Psychiatric Association & Association, 1994)criteria for primary degenerative dementia of the Alzheimer type, and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke-Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorder Association criteria for probable AD(McKhann et al., 1984); (2) severe dementia(CDR=3).
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Exclusion criteria: Family caregiver: (1) being a formal caregiver; (2) having severe health problems like stroke, cancer, or heart attack; (3) being cognitively impaired; (4) involving in another clinical trial; (5) planning to institutionalize CR imminently; (6) unable to participate in the intervention for all sessions. Care recipients: (1) have schizophrenia or bipolar disorder;(2) have dementia secondary to probable head trauma;(3) have an MMSE score of 0 and were bed-bound.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Burden;Depression; | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Caregiving competence ; | — |
Countries
China
Contacts
Public ContactSisi Jiang
Wenzhou Medical University
Outcome results
None listed