"Living Together With Dementia"_Creation and Validation of a Training Program for Family Caregivers of People With Dementia to Live at Home

Dementia Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03015428
• Other study ID #: LTWD1
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: April 10, 2016
• Last updated: January 7, 2017
• Start date: October 2015
• Est. completion date: December 2016

Study information

• Verified date: January 2017
• Source: Centro Hospitalar De São João, E.P.E.
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Portugal: CHSãoJoãoPortugal: Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study aims to experimentally evaluate the training program for family caregivers of people with dementia_"Living together with Dementia."

Description:

This study will begin in March 2016, with the initial assessment of family caregivers of people with dementia.

These were recruited through hospital neurology clinic and must comply with a set of pre-established criteria.

It is expected a total of 20 participants in the study (10 in the experimental group and 10 in control group).

Interventions will take place over the months of March and April. The final evaluation is scheduled for late April and the follow up to July 2016.

an evaluation document itself for this study was built.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 25
• Est. completion date: December 2016
• Est. primary completion date: December 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Be primary caregiver of the person with dementia

• Be able to read and write

• Carers of peolpe with dementia in initial or moderate stage

Exclusion Criteria:

• The person with dementia have severe mental pathologies associated

Study Design

Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Dementia

Intervention

Other:
• psychoeducation
Providing knowledge and skills development in family caregivers of people with dementia, through a structured psychoeducational programme

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Portugal	CHSaoJoao	Oporto

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Centro Hospitalar De São João, E.P.E.

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Portugal, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Caregiver Overload Scale		7 weeks	Yes
Primary	Carers Assessment Satisfaction Index		7 weeks	Yes
Primary	Carers Assessment Difficulties Index		7 weeks	Yes