Development and Implementation of Evidence-Based Family-Oriented Support for Young Carers and Their Families in Germany

University of Witten/Herdecke

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Chronic Illness

Treatments: Other: support service

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00734942

01GT0619

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to develop and implement evidence-based and family-oriented support for young carers and their families in Germany. Hypothesis is that families' own support mechanisms, combined with externally provided support that is determined by the families' specific needs, will help to overcome their burden and enable families to live in the way they wish to despite chronic illness. This will lead to a measurable increase in HRQOL of children concerned.

Enrollment: 150 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• children of mentally ill parents (chronic illness)
• children of somatically ill parents (chronic illness)

Exclusion criteria

• children of drug addicted parents

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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150 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Experimental group

Description:

intervention group

Treatment:

Other: support service

2

No Intervention group

Description:

waiting group