Dementia/Caregiver Support Nervous System Diseases
Conditions
Interventions
Participants will be randomly assigned to intervention or control group using sealed opaque sequential envelopes with codes from a blocked randomization list.
1. Control group: Participants receive ro
Sponsors
SingHealth Foundation
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Family caregivers of patients with dementia 2. Age 21 and above 3. Care for a patient with dementia, who has three or more behavioural problems at home as assessed by neuropsychiatric inventory questionnaire 4. Caregiving contact time>=10 hours per week 5. Own a smart phone (such as iPhone or Android phone) or tablet computer (such as iPad or Samsung Galaxy Note) and know how to use download applications from application distribution platforms (i.e. Apple AppStore or Google Play Store) 6. Able to read and write English
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Family caregiver who is suffering from any mental illness such as depression or having major medical conditions such as cancer 2. Patient who is suffering from any psychiatric mental disorder or living in nursing home/sheltered home
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. The Zarit Burden Inventory (Zarit,1985) will be used to assessed the level of subjective and objective burden experienced by caregiver. This is a 22-item self-report inventory on a 5-piont Likert scale. 2. The Family Crisis Oriented Personal Evaluation Scales will be used to measure the family's coping strategies (McCubbin, 2001). This is a 30-item self-report scale on a 5-point Likert scale. The measures will be administered at baseline, immediately post intervention and 3-month post intervention. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. The modified version of the 11-item Centre for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (Kohout, Berkman, Evans, & Cornoni-Huntley, 1993; Radloff, 1977) will be used to assess the caregiver depressive symptoms. 2. The Gain in Alzheimer care INstrument (GAIN) is a 10-item scale used to measure gains in dementia caregiving from the perspective of the family caregiver (Yap et al., 2010) 3. Neuropsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire (Cummings et al., 1994; Kaufer et al., 2000) is used to assess patient's severity of neuropsychiatric symptoms and caregiver's distress caused by the symptoms. It's a 12-item caregiver-rated scale. 4. The Revised Memory and Behaviour Problem Checklist (Teri et al., 1992) will be used to assess the frequency of behaviour problems in patients with dementia and the family caregiver's reactions to these behaviour problems. It's a 24-item caregiver self-reported scale. The measures will be administered at baseline, immediately post intervention and 3-month post intervention. | — |
Countries
Singapore
Outcome results
None listed