A Psychological Intervention for Family Caregivers of Palliative Care Patients

University of Valencia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Palliative Care

Treatments: Other: Psychological intervention for family caregivers of patients at the end of life

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04076670

PSI2010-19426

Details and patient eligibility

About

This work aims to study the benefits a psychological intervention in family caregivers of palliative care patients can have for reducing anxiety, depression and overburden.

A parallel randomized controlled trial of two groups was performed. Information was collected on 154 family caregivers of patients at the end of life during the moments before and after the intervention.

Enrollment: 154 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• To be the main family caregiver of a patient at the end of life, receiven palliative care. In the present study, the main family caregiver is defined as follows: family member who assumes the main tasks of care and attends to the patient most of the time, or for a longer period of time than other members of the family.
• To have signed the informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• To present cognitive impairment.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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154 participants in 2 patient groups

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Group pf participants that received usual psychological attention.

Experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

Group of participants that received usual psychological attention plus the structured psychological intervention prosed in the study.

Treatment:

Other: Psychological intervention for family caregivers of patients at the end of life