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A home-based training program improves Taiwanese family caregivers' quality of life and decreases their risk for depression
— a randomized controlled trial | | Author(s) | Li-Min Kuo, Huei-Ling Huang, Hsiu-Li Huang |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 28, no 5, May 2013 |
| Publisher | Wiley Blackwell, May 2013 |
| Pages | pp 504-513 |
| Source | www.orangejournal.org |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Family care ; Health [elderly] ; Quality of life ; Depression ; Training [welfare work] ; Clinical surveys ; Longitudinal surveys ; Taiwan. |
| Annotation | Little is known about the longitudinal effects of training programmes on family caregivers' health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and depressive symptoms over time. Therefore the purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a home-based caregiver training programme on HRQoL and depressive symptoms for family caregivers of older persons with dementia. Outcomes (caregivers' HRQoL and depressive symptoms) were assessed before the training programme (baseline), and at two weeks, three months, and six months afterwards. HRQoL was measured using the Medical Outcomes Study 36-item Short Form Survey, Taiwan version. Depressive symptoms were measured using the Chinese version Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale. Family caregivers who received the individualised home-based training programme had better health outcomes in bodily pain, role disability due to emotional problems, vitality, better mental summary score and decreased risk for depression, and confidence interval than those in the control group during the six months following the training programme. Overall the home-based caregiver training programme improved caregivers' HRQoL, especially role limitations due to emotional problems, and decreased their risk for depression. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130419206 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6:SJ: CC: F:59: ENR: QW: 3G: 3J: 7DP |
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