Dependence, Dementias
Conditions
Brief summary
The aim was to assess whether nursing interventions based on Health Educational Programs for primary informal caregivers of dependent patients may improve their quality of life, decreasing emotional burden and increasing caregiving knowledge, in order to better meet patients' basic needs.
Interventions
'Health education intervention'
Sponsors
Fundacion para la Investigacion Biomedica del Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Caregiver)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Primary informal caregivers of dependent patients, admitted in 30 hospital units, with expected hospital stays of at least one week. A dependent patient is understood to require the aid of someone else in order to carry out basic daily activities.
Exclusion criteria
* caregivers with cognitive deficits that could be an obstacle for adequate verbal understanding, illiteracy, persons taking part in other clinical trials or who had taken part in similar workshops in the previous two years, as well as health professionals.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| life quality | Data were evaluated with an average one month after discharge, a maximum in September 2009 |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Caregiver´s burden | Data were evaluated with an average one month after discharge, a maximum in September 2009 |
Outcome results
None listed