Dementia
Conditions
Interventions
intervention:counselling and self-learning on e-platform
control:self-learning on e-platform
Sponsors
Jockey Club Centre for Positive Ageing, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Hong Kong citizens aged 18 or above; 2. Currently providing at least eight hours per week of daily care to a relative or friend with dementia (defined by AD8 >= 2) [8]; 3. Able to communicate in Cantonese; 4. Able to use online meeting platforms such as Zoom or Microsoft Teams; 5. No plan to admit the care recipients to long-term care facility in the coming six months; 6. Not participated in BPSD counselling in the past three months; 7. Not receiving BPSD-related case management; 8. Care recipient is living in community; 9. Care recipient is not using dementia-specific day care or residential care service; 10. Care recipient has no known terminal illness; 11. Care recipient is in mild to moderate stage of dementia, defined by stage 4-6 of Functional Assessment Staging [9]; 12. You are able to participate in the assessment in this research; 13. Consent to research participation.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Non Hong Kong citizen; 2. Major psychiatric issue at the time of recruitment that may need more intensive intervention than psychoeducation; 3. You are not able to participate in the assessment in this research; 4. Not giving consent to research participation.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| BPSD severity and caregiving distress; | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| social support;caregiving efficacy;quality of life;quality-adjusted life years;health cost utilization;incremental cost-effectiveness ratio;caregiving challenges;how the intervention mitigates the challenges;improvement areas of the intervention; | — |
Countries
China
Contacts
Public ContactBel Wong
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Outcome results
None listed