Workload
Conditions
Interventions
Experimental group: 44 caregivers of elderly people with dementia will receive on their smartphones or tablets a mobile application about the caregiver's burden for daily use for a period of 30 days
every 7 days they will receive a follow-up call on such use. Control group: 44 caregivers of elderly people with dementia will receive, verbally, standardized information about the caregiver's burden,
Other
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Sponsors
Universidade Estadual do Ceará - UECE
Associação Brasileira de Alzheimer- Regional Ceará
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Be an informal caregiver of an elderly person with dementia; have an age of 18 years or more; being in the function of informal caregiver for the minimum period of 60 days; be literate; have some familiarity with the use of mobile electronic devices (smarthphone, tablet); have electronic device of the type smarthphone or tablet; accept the storage of the mobile application developed on your smarthphone or tablet; present suggestive scores of overload in two of the subscales of the Caregiver Reaction Assessment (CRA), version adapted and validated for use in Brazil.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: To present some cognitive limitation of response to baseline information (questionnaires and instruments).
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Reduction of the overload of the informal caregiver of the elderly with dementia, measured by the Brazilian version of the Caregiver Reaction Assessment instrument. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Increased knowledge of the caregiver about dementias, and about the care offered to the elderly with dementia, ascertained by a questionnaire elaborated specifically for this evaluation. | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactFernanda Mota
Universidade Estadual do Ceará - UECE
Outcome results
None listed