A Psychoeducational Intervention for Stroke Family Caregivers

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Behavioral: Psychoeducation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02080910

CRE-2012.185-T

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a randomized controlled trial with a 3-month psychoeducational program as intervention, followed by a 3 month observational period. The purpose of this study was to examine whether a psychoeducational program focusing on equipping caregivers with problem-solving skills would improve caregiver's problem-solving abilities, their psychological responses and caregiving resources, and would minimize the use of health and social services among stroke survivors.

Enrollment: 128 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria (caregiver):

• Family member of stroke survivor
• Chinese adult
• Live with stroke survivors
• Primary caregiver
• Being able to communicate with the researcher

Inclusion Criteria (stroke survivor):

• Chinese adult with diagnosis of stroke
• Live at home after discharge
• Being able to understand and to give consent

Exclusion Criteria (caregiver and stroke survivor):

• History of self-reported doctor-diagnosed psychiatric illness
• (stroke survivor): being mild to totally independent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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128 participants in 2 patient groups

Psychoeducational program

Experimental group

Description:

Psychoeducational program consisted of (1) two inpatient sessions of face-to-face education on stroke and its caregiving; (2) six biweekly problem-solving training via telephone contacts after the discharge of stroke survivors

Treatment:

Behavioral: Psychoeducation

Usual care

No Intervention group