Psychische belasting/stress bij partners van patiënten met de ziekte van Alzheimer Caregiver burden/stress in partners of dementia patients
Conditions
Interventions
Participants will be asked to collect ESM data using the PsyMate over a 6-day
period. The PsyMate will generate ten signals a day at unpredictable moments
between 07:30 and 22:30h. After each signal
Sponsors
Medisch Universitair Ziekenhuis Maastricht
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 99 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: - Spousal caregiver of a patiënt that is diagnosed with dementia. - Caregiver and patient share a household. - Written informed consent is obtained.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: - Caregivers who have insufficient cognitive abilities to engage in the ESM (based on clinical judgment). - Caregivers who are overburdened or have severe health problems (based on clinical judgment).
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| - Feasibility of the PsyMate: assessed by examining objective measures of compliance with the PsyMate, as well as through subjective participants ratings of the difficulty, time burden, and overall acceptability of the methodology. - Validity of the PsyMate: assessed by examining the presence of expected patterns among variables in daily life of the caregiver using the PsyMate and by examining the concordance between ESM measurements and standard retrospective measurements of the same construct. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| - Potential reactivity effects of using the PsyMate: assessed by comparing the outcomes of the retrospective questionnaires filled out before and after the ESM data collection. | — |
Countries
Netherlands
Outcome results
None listed