This study is to test the feasibility (pilot part) and efficacy (phase IIa part) of a specifically on the needs of caregivers of people with dementia composed new short-term psychotherapeutical intervention.
This prospective study will be offered to caregivers from the out patient clinic of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine of the University Rostock Medical Center. In a first pilot study with 10 participants without control group, we tested the feasability and acceptance of the program (completed 2/2015). From 4/2015 a phase IIa study started with 10 participants in the intervention group and 10 in the control groups (will be organized by waiting list). The program consists of two modules of caregiver education followed by ten psychotherapeutic group modules. Duration of each module is planned to be 90 minutes including a relaxation exercise at the end of each module. Primary outcomes are the feasibility, acceptance and the effect on caregiver burden.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
13
The program is designed for 10 participants and consists of two modules of caregiver education followed by ten psychotherapeutic group modules. The major overarching topics will be (i) caregiver´s emotional and physical limits, (ii) conscious and unconscious feelings and emotions towards the people with dementia and (iii) activation of caregivers´ social resources. Duration of each module is planned to be 90 minutes including a relaxation exercise at the end of each module.
University of Rostock
Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Change in perceived self-efficacy directly and 3 month after psychotherapeutical intervention and reduction of symptoms of depression
SWE, a german self-efficacy self-rating scale, will be used for self-efficacy measurement AND ADS (German Version of the CES-D Scale) for measurement for symptoms of depression
Time frame: before intervention, 0 and 3 month after end of intervention
reduction of perceived burden of care
We will be using the Zarit-Burden-Interview to measure the perceived burden of care
Time frame: before intervention, 0 and 3 month after end of intervention
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