SOSteniamoci: Stakeholders' Survey

Informal Caregivers Clinical Trial

Official title:

Informal Caregivers and Clinicians' Knowledge, Awareness, Attitude and Expect Barriers Towards Internet-based Interventions: A Stakeholders' Survey in Italy

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05797571
• Other study ID #: 03C212
• Status: Completed
• Start date: January 15, 2022
• Est. completion date: December 15, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: March 2023
• Source: Istituto Auxologico Italiano
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Informal care is defined as the unpaid care provided to an older, frail, or ill person, by a person such as a spouse, a parent, a child, another relative, a neighbor, or a friend. This phenomenon may lead to stress, burden, and decreased informal caregivers' quality of life. Since lack of time, distance from services, and financial strains make the provision of psychological interventions to informal caregivers often challenging, Internet-based (self-help) programs might represent a viable solution to promote their emotional well-being. Still, despite the proven benefits of internet-based intervention, no available programs for informal caregivers are available for the Italian population. Nevertheless, planning and developing an online intervention, involving possible stakeholders (caregivers), might facilitate the understanding and dissemination of, willingness to use, and success of the future intervention. Thus, the goal of the current study is to assess Italian stakeholders' knowledge about, awareness of, attitudes towards, willingness to participate and use, and expected barriers to internet-based interventions.

Description:

The present study assessed the knowledge and awareness, attitudes, willingness to participate in, and expected barriers towards using Internet-based interventions to alleviate caregivers' burden in a sample of Italian caregivers and clinicians. To this aim, an online stakeholders' survey was conducted in Italy among clinicians and informal caregivers, using a snowballing sampling technique. Participants were asked to fill in the informed consent and complete the online survey as a clinician, a caregiver, or both. Data were monitored daily. Descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation analysis were used for data analysis.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 150
• Est. completion date: December 15, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: December 15, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• clinicians and informal caregivers

• aged 18 years or older

• internet access

• basic computer literacy

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Informal Caregivers

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Italy	Giada Pietrabissa	Milan

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Istituto Auxologico Italiano

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Italy, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Mean score in Online survey for clinicians	Online survey for clinicians - 30 items	At baseline, during online survey, performed after signing informed consent
Primary	Mean score in Online survey for informal caregivers	Online survey for informal caregivers - 45 items	At baseline, during online survey, performed after signing informed consent