Efficiency of an Educational Program for Informal Caregivers of Hospitalized, Dependent Patients: Cluster Randomised Trial

The aim was to assess whether nursing interventions based on Health Educational Programs for primary informal caregivers of dependent patients may improve their quality of life, decreasing emotional burden and increasing caregiving knowledge, in order to better meet patients' basic needs.

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Key information

Conditions

Dependence, Dementias Brain Diseases Central Nervous System Diseases Dementia Mental Disorders Nervous System Diseases Neurocognitive Disorders

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Primary informal caregivers of dependent patients, admitted in 30 hospital units, with expected hospital stays of at least one week. A dependent patient is understood to require the aid of someone else in order to carry out basic daily activities.

Exclusion criteria

caregivers with cognitive deficits that could be an obstacle for adequate verbal understanding, illiteracy, persons taking part in other clinical trials or who had taken part in similar workshops in the previous two years, as well as health professionals.

Treatment and study plan

Health Education Intervention

Other

'Health education intervention'

Primary outcomes

life quality

Time frame: Data were evaluated with an average one month after discharge, a maximum in September 2009

Secondary outcomes

Caregiver´s burden

Time frame: Data were evaluated with an average one month after discharge, a maximum in September 2009

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Fundacion para la Investigacion Biomedica del Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start: 2009
Primary completion: 2009
Study completion: 2010
First posted: Oct 18, 2013
Registry last updated: Oct 18, 2013

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