Intervention on Caregivers Caring for Patients Poststroke With Upper Limb Apraxia (CPA)

University of Granada (UGR)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Emotional Stress; Performance Anxiety

Treatments: Other: Program on specific prevention of health; Other: Program on general prevention of health

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02307019

Caregiver patients apraxia

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of a intervention on a specific health prevention/intervention program aimed at caregivers of mild and moderate patients post stroke with upper limb apraxia in comparison to a control group with a no specific formation in that kind of patients.

Full description

Patients with Upper limb apraxia after stroke have severe problems to adapt their daily life.

The upper limb apraxia syndrome affects the performance of skilled movements carried out by the upper limbs and provoke that many patients´activities have to be made by their main caregiver or carers.

Caregivers usually have to occupy much time and efforts for caring their familiar or client, and it can result in a overload in different areas of the caregiver health.

Few data are available on the effectiveness of interventions in caregivers that informally works with that kind of patients.

The specific prevention health program is based on improving the awareness of the assistance that the caregivers provide, and knowing the process of the information that carer has to give to the patient while the patients have their activities made.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Having an habitual role of carer (informal or formal).
• Being caring a mild-moderate poststroke patient with upper limb apraxia.
• Subjective manifestations of overload in the role as carer.
• More than two month as carer.

Exclusion criteria

• Uncooperativeness
• Being formed in the care of that kind of patients

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Program on specific prevention of health

Experimental group

Description:

The caregivers will be randomly assigned to an experimental group, to receive the program on specific prevention of health. The workshop will be performed twice a month, two hours a day, during a 4-week period.

Treatment:

Other: Program on specific prevention of health

Program on general prevention of health

Active Comparator group

Description:

Control group will receive an intervention by mean of a general health program to manage the common situations when a caregiver is caring for a patient with dependency. The workshop will be performed two a month, two hours a day, during a 4-week period.

Treatment:

Other: Program on general prevention of health