Articles: caregivers.
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Int J Geriatr Psychiatry · Apr 2009
Randomized Controlled TrialHelping carers to care--the 10/66 dementia research group's randomized control trial of a caregiver intervention in Russia.
Dementia is a rapidly growing public health problem in low and middle income countries. There is an urgent need, in the absence of formal services, to develop interventions designed to improve the lives of people with dementia, and their families. This study tests the effectiveness of the 10/66 caregiver intervention among people with dementia, and their carers. ⋯ The low-level intervention seems to be as, if not more, effective than similar interventions applied in high income countries.
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Psychology and aging · Mar 2009
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter StudyOutcomes from the Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer's Caregiver Health (REACH) program for bereaved caregivers.
Although preventive efforts for bereaved individuals have not been shown to be particularly effective in past studies, it has been suggested that intervention effects might be underestimated due to methodological issues such as short follow-up assessments. Thus, the present study aimed to assess the efficacy (as whole intervention packages and as component parts) of the Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer's Caregiver Health (REACH) interventions in preventing complicated grief, normal grief, and depressive symptoms at a longer term follow-up assessment among bereaved caregivers (N = 224). ⋯ Interestingly, the examination of intervention components revealed differential effects, whereby cognitive and behavioral strategies were most effective at reducing levels of complicated grief, information and emotional support were most effective for addressing normal grief, and environmental modifications were most effective for ameliorating depressive symptoms. These findings suggest that different preloss interventions might be warranted depending on a caregiver's unique clinical presentation and combination of risk factors.
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Rehabilitation psychology · Feb 2009
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study Comparative StudyImproving the quality of life of caregivers of persons with spinal cord injury: a randomized controlled trial.
To assess the efficacy of two psychosocial interventions for caregivers of older persons with spinal cord injury (SCI). ⋯ Caregivers are in need of and can benefit from interventions that help them manage the medical and functional limitations of the care recipient. Intervention strategies that target both the caregiver and care recipient are particularly promising strategies for improving the quality of life of caregivers.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
WHEDA study: effectiveness of occupational therapy at home for older people with dementia and their caregivers--the design of a pragmatic randomised controlled trial evaluating a Dutch programme in seven German centres.
A recent Dutch mono-centre randomised controlled trial has shown that occupational therapy improves daily functioning in dementia. The aim of this present study is to compare the effects of the Dutch community occupational therapy programme with a community occupational therapy consultation on daily functioning in older people with mild or moderate dementia and their primary caregivers in a German multi-centre context. ⋯ The transfer from the Dutch mono-centre design to the pragmatic multi-site trial in a German context implicates several changes in design issues including differences in recruitment time, training of interventionists and active control group treatment.The study is registered under DRKS00000053 at the German register of clinical trials, which is connected to the International Clinical Trials Registry Platform.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study
Influence of caregiving on lifestyle and psychosocial risk factors among family members of patients hospitalized with cardiovascular disease.
Few data have evaluated the relationship between caregiving and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. ⋯ Caregivers of cardiac patients may be at increased risk themselves for CVD morbidity and mortality compared to non-caregivers due to suboptimal lifestyle and psychosocial risk factors.