Efficiency of an Educational Program for Informal Caregivers of Hospitalized, Dependent Patients: Cluster Randomised Trial

Fundacion para la Investigacion Biomedica del Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dependence, Dementias

Treatments: Other: Health education intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01965392

ESCPD-2010

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim was to assess whether nursing interventions based on Health Educational Programs for primary informal caregivers of dependent patients may improve their quality of life, decreasing emotional burden and increasing caregiving knowledge, in order to better meet patients' basic needs.

Enrollment: 151 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Primary informal caregivers of dependent patients, admitted in 30 hospital units, with expected hospital stays of at least one week. A dependent patient is understood to require the aid of someone else in order to carry out basic daily activities.

Exclusion criteria

• caregivers with cognitive deficits that could be an obstacle for adequate verbal understanding, illiteracy, persons taking part in other clinical trials or who had taken part in similar workshops in the previous two years, as well as health professionals.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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151 participants in 1 patient group

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Experimental group

Description:

one group received an educational program

Treatment:

Other: Health education intervention