Progressive Muscle Relaxation Exercise on Care Burden, Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Levels in Dementia Caregivers

Dementia Clinical Trial

Official title:

Progressive Muscle Relaxation Exercise on Care Burden, Depression, Anxiety and Stress Levels in Dementia Caregivers

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06143826
• Other study ID #: 24246
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 1, 2023
• Est. completion date: January 1, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: June 2024
• Source: Atlas University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Dementia, which leads to deterioration in cognitive and behavioral functions, is a chronic progressive disease. Since the diagnosis is made, the care needs of the patients increase. In the later stages of the disease, it becomes completely dependent on the caregiver.

they are coming. Caregiving is performed by family members in developing countries such as Turkey. Family members face many difficulties in their social, work, and daily lives after they start to care. These difficulties are the burden of caregiving is called. Caregivers who perceive the burden of care also experience anxiety, stress, and depression. Jacobson progressive muscle relaxation in coping with these problems exercises can be used. This study was planned to examine the effects of progressive muscle relaxation exercises on anxiety, stress, depression, and caregiver burden in dementia caregivers.

Description:

The research is a pre-test, post-test, and cross-sectional research. After explaining the purpose of the study to the caregivers who met the inclusion criteria, the Information Form, the Depression Anxiety Stress-21 Scale (DAS-21), and the Zarit Care Burden Scale will be administered. Then, progressive muscle relaxation exercises will be applied to caregivers. During the interview, the audio recording of the exercise will be given to them. Also, contact information (caregiver and researcher) will be shared mutually.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 50
• Est. completion date: January 1, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: October 1, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Be over 18 years old

• Being literate

• Not having difficulties in verbal communication

• Have been caring for at least 3 months

• Being able to provide care for free

• Being the primary caregiver of the patient

• Not having a psychiatric diagnosis

• Not using medication for psychiatric illness

Exclusion Criteria:

• Providing care for less than 3 months

• Providing paid care

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Caregiver Burden
• Dementia

Intervention

Other:
• Progressive muscle relaxation exercises
Progressive muscle relaxation exercises involve contracting and relaxing 16 muscle groups in the body (hand, upper arm, forearm, forehead, nose, cheek, chin, neck, shoulder, chest, abdomen, waist, stomach, calf, hip, foot). During the exercise, the individual perceives the changes in the muscles during the contraction and relaxation of the muscles. Relaxation exercise is applied along with correct and deep breathing.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Alzheimer daily life home	Istanbul

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Atlas University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Caregiver burden	The Zarit caregiver burden scale will be evaluated before and after the intervention. Five-point Likert-type scale and it consists of 22 statements. The scale has no subgroups. According to the score obtained from the scale: 88-61 points is a severe burden, 60-41 points is moderately severe, 40-21 points is mild to moderate, and less than 21 points is a mild or no burden.	At the end of the 3 months, the Zarit caregiver burden scale will be applied.
Secondary	Depression, anxiety and stress	Depression, anxiety and stress scale will be evaluated before and after the intervention. There are 7 items each to measure depression, anxiety, and stress dimensions on the scale. The first 7 questions in the scale are anxiety, the 7 questions between 8-14 are depression, and last 7 questions 15-21 are also about stress. It is a 4-point Likert type. High scores from the scale indicate depression, anxiety and stress.	At the end of the 3 months, the Depression, anxiety and stress scale-21 will be applied.