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Dementia family caregiver training
— affecting beliefs about caregiving and caregiver outcomes | | Author(s) | Kenneth W Hepburn, Jane Tornatore, Bruce Center |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 49, no 4, April 2001 |
| Pages | pp 450-457 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Family care ; Stress ; Training [welfare work] ; Attitude ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Family caregiving is an integral part of the care system for those with dementing disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). This study tested the Minnesota Family Workshop (MFW), a role-training intervention provided in seven weekly 2-hour sessions. Its aim was to help family caregivers appreciate and assume a more clinical belief set about caregiving, and thereby ameliorate the adverse associated outcomes. Courses (16 in all) were begun every 2 months over a two and half year period. Data reported in this paper were gathered from each of the 65 participating families (and a similar number of controls) at entry to the study and 5 months later. Significant within-group improvements occurred with treatment group caregivers on measures of beliefs about caregiving and reaction to behaviour. When outcomes were compared, treatment group caregivers were significantly different (in the expected direction) on measures of the stress mediator, beliefs, and key outcomes: response to behaviour, depression, and burden. Such training programmes targeted at knowledge, skills and beliefs benefit caregivers in a number of important outcome dimensions. However, the article draws attention to some limitations in the study's design. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020115214 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6:SJ: QNH: QW: DP: 7T |
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