Cerebrovascular Disorder Clinical Trial
Official title:
Supporting Older People's Informal CAREgivers at Home Through InCARE Programme
Background: More than 42% of older people (aged +65) have a stroke and most of them require
some type of help to self-care at home. Informal caregivers have reported different types of
need and have shown dissatisfaction with technical and emotional support delivered by
community health teams. Furthermore, empowering informal caregivers who care after older
stroke survivors is an important challenge, preventing them from negative outcomes such as
burden, anxiety and depression or loss of physical function or hospitalization in older
people.
Objectives: This pilot study aims to implement and evaluate the impact of an intervention
based on training and telephone support delivered to informal caregivers who care after
older people post-stroke.
Setting: Community health units in Northern Portugal region. Design/Methods: This single
blinded randomized trial will be delivered by a community nursing team to informal
caregivers 1 week, 1 and 3 months after a hospital discharge.
Study outcome(s): The primary outcomes will be informal caregivers´ empowerment. Secondary
outcomes will include burden and health quality of life in caregivers; functionality,
hospital readmission and institutionalization of older people stroke survivors, measured 1
and 3 months after intervention.
Results/Conclusion: Data collection started in February and will be concluded in August
2014. First results will be published at the beginning of 2015. The InCARE programme will be
the first pilot in informal caregivers study ever conducted in Portugal. It will highlight
new ways to support caregivers who take care of older people after a stroke. If successful,
this study will be translational and it will also allow to disseminate the results in
Portugal and abroad and implement it as best practice.
InCare study has a purpose to implement and evaluate an intervention delivered to informal caregivers who care for older people after a stroke. ;
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Caregiver), Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
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