mental, behaviour disorders
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: care for traveling professional caretaker (ICC) for three hours, twice a week
b) Group 2: receive a single visit from a social worker, who will provide information to the family caregiver on strategies to deal with the elderly dependent, care-related stress and approach to beha
Other
Sponsors
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
Eligibility
Age
60 Years to 100 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: The sample consists of 60-year-olds and more of both sexes, who presents disability in two or more ADLs. All of them must have a family caregiver who was responsible for supervising and caring for most of the elder's activities.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Elderly people with mild dependency (one or two ADLs), who live alone, even if they are dependent or who have irregular care, will be excluded.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Definition of outcomes (after six months of intervention): Primary endpoint (1): The reduction of at least one level of family caregiver burden in the burden scale will be considered the primary endpoint. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Secondary Outcomes: • Reduction of depression symptoms - will be considered as a reduction of depressive symptoms when the score goes from nine or more, to less than nine points. • Improvement of social support levels - it will be considered an improvement in social support when a category goes from unsatisfactory to satisfactory in the second evaluation and this results in a statistically significant improvement in total social support. • Reduction of the risk of violence by the caregiver - reduction of a point in the CASE scale. • Effectiveness of the communication application in optimizing the work of family health teams with dependent elderly people - It will be considered the number of contacts related to health problems between caregivers and teams for solutions to health problems and the percentage of problem solving. | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactValéria;Valéria Lino;Lino
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz;Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
Outcome results
None listed