Learned Resourcefulness Intervention

Chang Gung Medical Foundation

Status: Completed

Conditions: Quality of Life; Caregiver Burden; Self-Control

Treatments: Procedure: learned resourcefulness intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03717077

201801443B0C501

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aimed to test the effects of a learned resourcefulness interveniton program on the learned resourcefulness, caregiver burden, quality of life for older family caregivers.

Full description

A quasi-experimental trail will be used to test the effects of a learned resourcefulness intervention program on the learned resourcefulness, caregiver burden, quality of life for older family caregivers. Through the use of convenience sampling strategy, one teaching medical hospital with approximately 104 older family caregivers in southern Taiwan will be recruited and simple randomly assigned based on teaching medical hospital to a Learned resourcefulness intervention program experimental group or a wait-list control group. Participants in the experimental group will receive the learned resourcefulness intervention program led by researcher, one time per week, 50 minutes for one week, 10 minutes for these weeks; participants in the wait-list control group will continue to receive their home care service. One pre-test and two post-tests, all participants will assessed for learned resourcefulness, caregiver burden, quality of life at baseline, and at 5 and 9 weeks of the study.

Enrollment: 94 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60 to 100 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• aged 60 and above
• family caregivers of disabled adults who received home care service
• cognitively intact as assessed by SPMSQ score of 8 and above
• disabled adults will assessed by Barthel Index score of 60 and bellow
• able to answer questions

Exclusion criteria

• participants with severe mental disabilities

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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94 participants in 2 patient groups

Learned resourcefulness intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The learned resourcefulness program includes: 1) Solving problem strategy, 2) Organizing daily actions, 3) Using self-regulation, 4) Reframing positive situations, 5) Changing negative self-thinking, 6) Exploring new thinking and skills. It is conducted one time per week.

Treatment:

Procedure: learned resourcefulness intervention

Usual home care service

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group maintains home care service