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Befriending carers of people with dementia
— randomised controlled trial | | Author(s) | Georgina Charlesworth, Lee Shepstone, Edward Wilson |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 336, no 7656, 7 June 2008 |
| Pages | pp 1295-1297 |
| Source | http://www.bmj.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Family care ; Quality of life ; Visiting ; Voluntary workers ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | The effectiveness of a voluntary sector based befriending scheme for improving the psychological well-being and quality of life for family carers of people with dementia was evaluated. 23 family carers of people with primary progressive dementia in community settings in Norfolk, Suffolk and the London Borough of Havering participated in a single blind randomised controlled trial. Contact with a befriender facilitator and offer of match with a trained lay volunteer befriender was compared with no befriender facilitator contact; all participants continued to receive "usual care". Carers' mood was measured using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and health related quality of life (EuroQoL) at 15 months post randomisation. The intention to treat analysis showed no benefit for the intervention "access to a befriender facilitator" on the primary outcome measure or on any of the secondary outcome measures. In common with many carers' services, befriending schemes are not taken up by all carers, and providing access to a befriending scheme is not effective in improving well-being. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080611004 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6:SJ: F:59: NP: QV: 4C * |
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