Dementia. Dementia
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention 1: Family education program about care of elderly. Intervention 2: No intervention in control group.
Family education program about care of elderly
No intervention in control group
Sponsors
Vice chancellor for research of Isfahan university of medical sciences
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
No minimum to 91 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Inclusion criteria: family caregiver knows yourself as main caregiver of patient, age of caregiver is above 21 years, he or she would have education level above elementary, she or he would be as main caregiver only for one patient with chronic condition (with dementia), she or he didn’t participate in family education meetings about care of elderly before, other caregivers (such as private nurses) didn’t help for caring of patient. Exclusion criteria: caregiver would participate in less than 4 education meetings, patient would pass away during study, caregiver has acute or chronic physical & mental diseases which obstruct patient care, caregiver would use psychotropic drugs, caregiver abandon care of elderly to long term care centers during one month after intervention
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria:
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Reduction of caregiving burden. Timepoint: 5 weeks after intervention. Method of measurement: caregiving burden index. | — |
Countries
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Contacts
Public ContactJahangir Maghsoudi
Isfahan university of medical sciences
Outcome results
None listed