Learned Resourcefulness Intervention

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital94 enrolled

Overview

This study aimed to test the effects of a learned resourcefulness interveniton program on the learned resourcefulness, caregiver burden, quality of life for older family caregivers.

A quasi-experimental trail will be used to test the effects of a learned resourcefulness intervention program on the learned resourcefulness, caregiver burden, quality of life for older family caregivers. Through the use of convenience sampling strategy, one teaching medical hospital with approximately 104 older family caregivers in southern Taiwan will be recruited and simple randomly assigned based on teaching medical hospital to a Learned resourcefulness intervention program experimental group or a wait-list control group. Participants in the experimental group will receive the learned resourcefulness intervention program led by researcher, one time per week, 50 minutes for one week, 10 minutes for these weeks; participants in the wait-list control group will continue to receive their home care service. One pre-test and two post-tests, all participants will assessed for learned resourcefulness, caregiver burden, quality of life at baseline, and at 5 and 9 weeks of the study.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Self-Control Caregiver Burden Quality of Life

Interventions

learned resourcefulness interventionPROCEDURE

The LR program includes: 1) Solving problem strategy, 2) Organizing daily actions, 3) Using self-regulation, 4) Reframing positive situations, 5) Changing negative self-thinking, 6) Exploring new thinking and skills. It is conducted one time per week.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 60 YearsMax age: 100 YearsHealthy volunteers:

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Inclusion Criteria: * aged 60 and above * family caregivers of disabled adults who received home care service * cognitively intact as assessed by SPMSQ score of 8 and above * disabled adults will assessed by Barthel Index score of 60 and bellow * able to answer questions Exclusion Criteria: * participants with severe mental disabilities

Locations (1)

Meng-Chun Chen (MCC)

Chiayi City, Taiwan

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Self-control as the learned resourcefulness measured by Rosenbaum's self control schedule

which is a 36-item scale, is used to measure the cognitive and problem-solving skills, the higher the score, the better a self-control of a person

Time frame: 9 weeks

Caregiver burden measured by caregiver burden scale

which is a 20-item scale by Lee and Wu, The total score ranges between 0 and 60, with a higher score representing a higher degree of burden.

Time frame: 9 weeks

Quality of life measured by EuroQol five dimension scale (ED-5Q)

The EuroQol five dimension scale (ED-5Q) developed by the EuroQol Group, the higher the score, the better the state of health.

Time frame: 9 weeks

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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