CAREGIVER2, Caregiver's Health Assessment : Clinical and Biological Markers

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire UCLouvain Namur

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Caregivers

Treatments: Other: Research questionnaires, blood sample

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02521740

1318184

Details and patient eligibility

About

Providing care for a disabled elderly may represent a risk for the health of the caregiver. The objective of the study is to assess the impact of caregiving in terms of clinical and biological markers in relation to disability and cognitive impairment.

Full description

The investigators hypothesize that an accumulation of stressful events related to care giving may induce a stress response to the caregiver. This stress response can be measured by biological markers (inflammation, transcription and immunity) and also by clinical markers (frailty, physical performance, nutrition). This stress response can be influenced by the subjective burden of the caregiver and by the severity of the disease of the care receiver (Activity of daily life capabilities, cognitive function, behavioral disturbance).

Enrollment: 150 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 70+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• living with the care-receiver ( or with a healthy elderly for the controls)
• care-receiver dependent for at least one Activity of the daily living ( Katz index) or having cognitive disorder ( >2 Global Deterioration Scale)

Exclusion criteria

• institutionalised elderly
• inability to understand and speak french
• Acute disease within the past month
• Anti-inflammatory or immuno-suppressive treatment
• End-of-life care

Trial design

150 participants in 2 patient groups

caregivers

Description:

someone who takes care and lives with a disabled elderly

Treatment:

Other: Research questionnaires, blood sample

controls

Description:

someone who lives with an healthy elderly

Treatment:

Other: Research questionnaires, blood sample