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A counseling intervention for caregivers
— effect on neuropsychiatric symptoms | | Author(s) | Vorapun Senanarong, Piyanuch Jamjumras, Kamolthip Harmphadungkit |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 19, no 8, August 2004 |
| Pages | pp 781-788 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Mental disorder ; Symptoms ; Informal care ; Advisory services [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Thailand. |
| Annotation | In Thailand, family caregivers have an important role in delivering care to patients with dementia, most of whom live in the community. Training caregivers may improve care of dementia patients. The authors performed a treatment study of a 6-month caregiver intervention with group counselling and support with provision of techniques to cope with non-cognitive symptoms of patients with dementia. They hypothesised that this intervention would reduce these patients' behavioural and neuropsychiatric symptoms. Participants were 50 non-professional caregivers - 25 in a study group, 25 in a control group - of patients with dementia from a Thai memory clinic. The Thai Mental State Examination (TMSE) were used to assess dementia severity. 45-minute counselling sessions were conducted every 6-8 weeks for 6 months, and assessments were conducted at 3 months and 6 months There was a trend towards improvement of TMSE scores between the two groups at 6 months, though the result favoured the treatment group. The study provided evidence of the utility of a non-pharmacological intervention using group counselling an an outpatients setting for caregivers of patients with dementia. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040913225 A |
| Classmark | EA: E: CT: P6: IT: 4C: 7HG |
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