Psychosocial telephone intervention for dementia caregivers: A randomized, controlled trial.
Alzheimers Dement
; 11(5): 541-8, 2015 May.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Identifying effective and accessible interventions for dementia caregivers is critical as dementia prevalence increases.OBJECTIVE:
Examine the effects of a telephone-based intervention on caregiver well-being.DESIGN:
Randomized, controlled trial.SETTING:
Academic medical center.PARTICIPANTS:
Two hundred and fifty distressed, family, dementia caregivers. INTERVENTION Caregivers randomized to receive 16 telephone contacts over 6 months of either the Family Intervention Telephone Tracking-Caregiver (FITT-C) or Telephone Support (TS).OUTCOME:
Primary outcome variables were family caregivers' depressive symptoms, burden, and reactions to care recipients' behavior problems at 6 months.RESULTS:
The FITT-C intervention resulted in significantly improved caregiver depressive symptoms (P = .003; 27% net improvement) and less severe reactions to care-recipient depressive behaviors (P = .009; 29% net improvement) compared with the control condition (TS).CONCLUSION:
An entirely telephone-based intervention improves caregivers' depressive symptoms and reactions to behavior problems in the care recipient and is comparable with reported results of face-to-face interventions.Key words
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Caregivers
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Dementia
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Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Type of study:
Clinical_trials
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
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Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
En
Journal:
Alzheimers Dement
Year:
2015
Type:
Article