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

N/ACompletedNCT01965392

Fundacion para la Investigacion Biomedica del Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal151 enrolled

Overview

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.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

151

Conditions

Dependence, Dementias

Interventions

Health education interventionOTHER

'Health education intervention'

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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.

Outcomes

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

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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