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More at Home with Dementia. The effect of training of caregivers of people with dementia on the well being of both the caregiver and the person with dementia.

More at Home with Dementia: further developping and assessing the effect of an existing program aimed at training the carer of persons with dementia.

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
NL-OMON
Registry ID
NL-OMON23028
Enrollment
144
Registered
2016-03-09
Start date
2016-05-08
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2024-02-28

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Experienced burden and Quality of life of caregivers of people with dementia Neuropsychiatric symptoms of people with dementia

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
Lead Sponsor

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

MeasureTime frame
Carer: Self Rated burden scale, CarerQol-7D, CarerQol-visual analog scale, objective burden Patient with dementia: Neuro psychiatric inventory

Secondary

MeasureTime 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

m.kamies@laurens.nl010 2229251

Outcome results

None listed

Source: NL-OMON (via WHO ICTRP)