Experienced burden and Quality of life of caregivers of people with dementia Neuropsychiatric symptoms of people with dementia
Conditions
Interventions
7- day residential intensive training of carers of people with dementia. The training is an intensive multicomponent and multimodel training comprising psychosocial and psycho educational intervention
Sponsors
S.U. (Sytse) Zuidema, MD, PhD, Prof. of Elderly Care Medicine and Dementia. Department of General Practice, UMCG/ department of medical sciences, Groningen
W.P. (Wilco) Achterberg, MD, PhD, Prof. of institutional care and elderly care medicine. Department of Public Health and Priamry Care. LUMC, Leiden,
Froukje Boersma, MD, PhD, Elderly Care Physician, Researcher, Department of General Practice, UMCG/ department of medical sciences, Groningen
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Couples of caregiver and person with dementia living together Person with dementia: diagnosis dementia, understanding and speaking Dutch Caregiver: understanding and speaking Dutch
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Person with dementia: agressive behaviour or wandering
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Carer: Self Rated burden scale, CarerQol-7D, CarerQol-visual analog scale, objective burden Patient with dementia: Neuro psychiatric inventory | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Carer: experienced health (RAND36/SF36), use of facilities and health care, quality of life (EQ5D+C),use of psychotropic drugs, depression and anxiety (center of epidemiologic studies depression (CES-D), hospital anxiety and depression scale anxiety subscale (HADS-A) Person with dementia: basic activities of daily living and instumental activities of daily living (ADL and IADL, Katz-15), use of facilities and health care, dementia quality of life instrument (DQI), Cohen Mansfield agitation inventory -community (CMAI), geriatric deterioration scale (GDS-Reisberg), use of psychotropic drugs | — |
Contacts
Public ContactMiranda Kamies
Pres. Rooseveltweg 22
Outcome results
None listed