Learned Resourcefulness Intervention

Quality of Life Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effect of Learned Resourcefulness Intervention on Learned Resourcefulness, Caregiver Burden, Quality of Life for Older Family Caregivers

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03717077
• Other study ID #: 201801443B0C501
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 6, 2019
• Est. completion date: April 12, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: January 2021
• Source: Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study aimed to test the effects of a learned resourcefulness interveniton program on the learned resourcefulness, caregiver burden, quality of life for older family caregivers.

Description:

A quasi-experimental trail will be used to test the effects of a learned resourcefulness intervention program on the learned resourcefulness, caregiver burden, quality of life for older family caregivers. Through the use of convenience sampling strategy, one teaching medical hospital with approximately 104 older family caregivers in southern Taiwan will be recruited and simple randomly assigned based on teaching medical hospital to a Learned resourcefulness intervention program experimental group or a wait-list control group. Participants in the experimental group will receive the learned resourcefulness intervention program led by researcher, one time per week, 50 minutes for one week, 10 minutes for these weeks; participants in the wait-list control group will continue to receive their home care service. One pre-test and two post-tests, all participants will assessed for learned resourcefulness, caregiver burden, quality of life at baseline, and at 5 and 9 weeks of the study.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 94
• Est. completion date: April 12, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: April 1, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 60 Years to 100 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• aged 60 and above

• family caregivers of disabled adults who received home care service

• cognitively intact as assessed by SPMSQ score of 8 and above

• disabled adults will assessed by Barthel Index score of 60 and bellow

• able to answer questions

Exclusion Criteria:

• participants with severe mental disabilities

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Caregiver Burden
• Quality of Life
• Self-Control

Intervention

Procedure:
• learned resourcefulness intervention
The LR program includes: 1) Solving problem strategy, 2) Organizing daily actions, 3) Using self-regulation, 4) Reframing positive situations, 5) Changing negative self-thinking, 6) Exploring new thinking and skills. It is conducted one time per week.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Taiwan	Meng-Chun Chen (MCC)	Chiayi city

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Self-control as the learned resourcefulness measured by Rosenbaum's self control schedule	which is a 36-item scale, is used to measure the cognitive and problem-solving skills, the higher the score, the better a self-control of a person	9 weeks
Primary	Caregiver burden measured by caregiver burden scale	which is a 20-item scale by Lee and Wu, The total score ranges between 0 and 60, with a higher score representing a higher degree of burden.	9 weeks
Primary	Quality of life measured by EuroQol five dimension scale (ED-5Q)	The EuroQol five dimension scale (ED-5Q) developed by the EuroQol Group, the higher the score, the better the state of health.	9 weeks