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The effect on carer well-being of carer involvement in cognition-based interventions for people with dementia
— a systematic review and meta-analysis | | Author(s) | Phuoung Leung, Vasiliki Orgeta, Martin Orrell |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 32, no 4, April 2017 |
| Publisher | Wiley Blackwell, April 2017 |
| Pages | pp 372-385 |
| Source | www.orangejournal.org |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Family care ; Participation ; Psychiatric treatment ; Therapy ; Depression ; Anxiety ; Well being. |
| Annotation | The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects on carer well-being of carer involvement in cognition-based interventions (CBIs) for people with dementia. A review and meta-analysis were performed. Searches were carried out on electronic databases for randomised controlled trials (RCTs). Two reviewers worked independently to select trials, extract data and assess the risk of bias. A total of 4737 studies was identified. Eight RCTs met the inclusion criteria. Only seven studies with 803 dyads of people with dementia and carers were included in the meta-analysis. Evidence indicated that carer involvement in CBIs for people with dementia had a beneficial effect on carers' quality of life. Carers' depression levels were reduced in the intervention group. No significant differences were observed in levels of anxiety symptoms, caregiving relationship and carer burden in the intervention group compared to those in the control group. Because CBIs are designed to deliver benefit for people with dementia, the collateral benefits for carers have potential implications for the importance of CBIs in service delivery and may contribute to cost effectiveness. However there remains a lack of quality of research in this area. Particularly, in some outcomes, there was a lack of consistency of results, so the findings should be interpreted with caution. Future studies of the impact of CBIs on carers with larger samples and high-quality RCTs are warranted. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170331205 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6:SJ: TMB: LP: LO: ENR: ENP: D:F:5HH |
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