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How effective are interventions with caregivers?
— an updated meta-analysis | | Author(s) | Silvia Sörensen, Martin Pinquart, Paul Duberstein |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 42, no 3, June 2002 |
| Pages | pp 356-372 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Family care ; Services ; Health services ; Needs [elderly] ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Intervention studies have used a number of different outcome measures. The present study used meta-analysis to synthesise the effects of 78 caregiver intervention studies for 6 outcome variables and six types of interventions. The combined interventions produced a significant improvement of 0.14 to 0.41 standard deviation units, on average, for caregiver burden, depression, subjective well-being, perceived caregiver satisfaction, ability/knowledge, and care receiver symptoms. Intervention effects were larger for increasing caregivers' ability/knowledge than for burden and depression. Psycho-educational and psychotherapeutic interventions showed the most consistent short-term effects on all outcome measures. Intervention effects for dementia caregivers were smaller than for those in other groups. The number of sessions, the setting, ages of care receiver and caregiver, gender, type of caregiver-care receiver relationship (spouse vs adult child), initial burden, and study characteristics moderated the observed effects. While caregiver interventions are effective, some have domain-specific rather than global effects. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020703210 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6:SJ: I: L: IK: 4C: 7T |
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