Feasibility and effectiveness of a telephone-based social support intervention for informal caregivers of people with dementia: Study protocol of the TALKING TIME project

Autor: Swantje Seismann-Petersen, Margareta Halek, Diana Trutschel, Katharina Wermke, Martin N. Dichter, Bernd Albers, Martin Berwig
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
Gerontology
Male
Health-related quality of life
Psychological intervention
standards [Telemedicine]
law.invention
Social support
Study Protocol
0302 clinical medicine
Randomized controlled trial
law
Germany
030212 general & internal medicine
Health Policy
Nursing research
lcsh:Public aspects of medicine
Caring for people with dementia
rehabilitation [Dementia]
Middle Aged
Community Mental Health Services
Telemedicine
Informal caregivers
Self-Help Groups
Treatment Outcome
Caregivers
Female
psychology [Caregivers]
Adult
Adolescent
psychology [Dementia]
Context (language use)
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
Quality of life (healthcare)
Nursing
medicine
Dementia
Humans
ddc:610
Aged
statistics & numerical data [Community Mental Health Services]
business.industry
Telephone-based intervention
Social Support
lcsh:RA1-1270
medicine.disease
Self Concept
Psycho-social intervention
Telephone
Quality of Life
Feasibility Studies
Pamphlets
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Zdroj: BMC Health Services Research
BMC Health Services Research, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2017)
BMC health services research 17(1), 280 (2017). doi:10.1186/s12913-017-2231-2
ISSN: 1472-6963
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-017-2231-2
Popis: Background Caring for people with dementia at home requires a significant amount of time, organization, and commitment. Therefore, informal caregivers, mainly relatives, of people with dementia often feel a high burden. Although on-site support groups are known to have positive effects on the subjective well-being (SWB) and perceived social support of informal caregivers, there are cases in which relatives have either no time or no opportunity to leave the person alone or in which there are no support groups nearby. The TALKING TIME project aims to close this supply gap by providing structured telephone-based support groups in Germany for the first time. International studies have shown benefits for informal caregivers. Methods The TALKING TIME study is a randomized controlled trial. The effects of the 3-month TALKING TIME intervention will be compared with those of a control group without intervention at two time points (baseline = T 0 , after 3 months = T 1 ). The control group will receive the TALKING TIME intervention after T 1 . With a planned sample size of 88 participants, the study is powered to detect an estimated effect size of 0.70 for psychological quality of life, considering an α of 0.05 (two-sided), a power of 80%. Caregivers are informal caregivers who are eligible if they are 18 years of age or older and have cared for a person with diagnosed dementia for at least four hours, four days per week, in the past six months. The exclusion criteria are psychiatric disorders of the informal caregiver. The primary outcome is the mental component summary of the SF-12 rated by informal caregivers. The secondary outcomes for informal caregivers are the physical component summary of the SF-12, the Perceived Social Support Caregiver Scale (SSCS) score, and the Caregiver Reaction Scale (CRS) score. The secondary outcome for care recipients is the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI-Q). For the process evaluation, different quantitative and qualitative data sources will be collected to address reach, fidelity, dosage and context. Discussion The results will provide further information on the effectiveness and optimization of telephone-based support groups for informal caregivers of people with dementia, which can help guide the further development of effective telephone-based social support group interventions. Trial registration Clinical Trials: NCT02806583 , June 9, 2016
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