Experiencied 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 multi-component and multi-model training comprising psycho-social and psycho educational intervent
Sponsors
S.U. (Sytse) Zuidema, MD, PhD.
Professor of Elderly Care Medicine and Dementia
Department of General Practice
UMCG / Faculty of General Practice, Groningen The Netherlands
W.P. (Wilco) Achterberg, MD, PhD,
Professor of Institutional care and elderly care medicine
Department of Public Health and Primary Care LUMC, Leiden The Netherlands
Froukje Boersma, MD, PhD, Elderly Care Physician, Researcher.
Department of General Practice, UMCG/Faculty of Medical Sciences, Groningen, The Netherla
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Couples of caregiver and person with dementia living together Person with dementia: diagnosis dementia, understanding and speaking Dutch Caregivers: 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- VAS, CarerQol-7D; CarerQol-VAS Person with dementia: Neuro Psychiatric Inventory | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Carer: experienced health (RAND 36/SF36); use of facilities and health care, quality of life (EQ5D), use of psychotropic drugs, depression: Center for Epidemiologic Studies- Depression (CES-D) and anxiety: Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, anxiety subscale (HADS-A). Person with dementia: Katz index of independence basic activities of daily living (ADL), instrumental activities of daily living (IADL); Dementia Quality of life instrument DQI, use of facilities and health care; agitation: Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory- Community: (CMAI-C); severity of dementia: Geriatric Deterioration Scale (GDS-Reisberg); use of psychotropic drugs | — |
Contacts
Public ContactMiranda Kamies
Pres. Rooseveltweg 22
Outcome results
None listed