Quality of Life Clinical Trial
Official title:
Psychosocial Group Intervention to Enhance Empowerment of People With Dementia and Their Caregivers: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
After diagnosis of a dementing illness, patients and their spouses have many concerns
related to the disease and their future. This often leads to poor psychological well-being
and reduced health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of the family. Support for Empowerment
has been proven to be an effective method to improve prognosis of asthma, heart failure,
osteoarthritis.and diabetes. However empowering interventions have not been studied in
dementia. Therefore, the investigators aim was to examine, in an objective-oriented group
intervention, the efficacy of empowerment support program (ESP) on the HRQoL of dementia
patients and their spousal caregivers as well as on the sense of competence and
psychological well-being of caregivers.
Methods: During the years 2014 to 15, 180 dementia patients and their spouses will be
recruited from memory clinics or day centers and randomized into two arms: 90 patients for
group-based ESP sessions including topics selected by the participants and the use of the by
us for us guides, 90 patients will serve as controls in usual community care. Sessions may
include topics on dementia, active lifestyle and prevention for cognitive decline, spousal
relationship, future planning and emotional well-being. The patients and spouses will have
their separate group sessions (ten participants per group) once a week for eight weeks.
Diagnoses and medications are confirmed from medical records provided by the couples. Charlson's comorbidity index is calculated to assess the severity and prognostic value of the participants' disease burden . Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of the patients is assessed by using the 15D instrument Dementia patients are also assessed with the Clinical Dementia Rating Scale (CDR) the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) Other measurements include activities of daily living (ADL), instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) The presence of advance directives, such as a living will, are inquired about. Clinical measurements include height, weight, blood pressure and hand grip strength. The spousal caregivers are asked questions concerning the impact of their spouse's dementia diagnosis and they are assessed by the RAND-36 HRQoL instrument, 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) the randomization is performed by telephone to a randomization center. Couples are randomly allocated by means of computer-generated random numbers. Every randomization result will appear in the program after the participants name has been written and the person executing the randomization has confirmed the process with her initials. Participating couples are assessed by two study nurses three times over nine months: at baseline, three, and nine months. Use of health services, institutionalizations and mortality of both patients and caregivers will be retrieved from the central registers until 24 months from the baseline measurements. ;
Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
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