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Effects of modified 8-week reminiscence therapy on the older spouse caregivers of stroke survivors in Chinese communities
— a randomized controlled trial | | Author(s) | Yongxia Mei, Beilei Lin, Yingshuang Li |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 33, no 4, April 2018 |
| Publisher | Wiley, April 2018 |
| Pages | pp 633-641 |
| Source | http://www.orangejournal.org |
| Keywords | Stroke ; Spouses as carers ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Therapy ; Life satisfaction ; Evaluation ; China. |
| Annotation | The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a modified eight week reminiscence therapy on the burden, positive experience and life satisfaction of older spouse caregivers and the life satisfaction of stroke survivors. The authors conducted a randomised controlled trial by using 75 older stroke couples recruited from communities in Zhengzhou, China. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three groups: Group 1 (25 couples, all attending intervention) and Group 2 (22 couples, only caregivers attending intervention), who participated in a modified eight week reminiscence therapy, and a waiting list (control) group (28 couples). Interviewers blinded to treatment group assignment administered the life satisfaction to both stroke survivors and caregivers, caregiver burden and positive experience for caregivers, at pre-intervention, immediately post-intervention, and at one month and three months after cessation of the intervention. There was found to be a statistically significant interaction between treatment groups and assessment time points for the four outcome measures. Although the effects were decreased after intervention at one month, the improvement in caregivers' positive experience, life satisfaction, burden and life satisfaction of stroke survivors were still significant. The use of a modified eight week reminiscence therapy in this study sample improved the life satisfaction of stroke survivors and their spouse caregivers, improved the positive experience of caregivers and decreased the burden of caregivers. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180413206 A |
| Classmark | CQA: P6:SN: DB: LO: F:5HH: 4C: 7DC |
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