Background: Caregivers of people with dementia faces difficulties while constantly caring for their loved ones. Providing support programs should consider for promoting their experience of caregiving, quality of care, and will lead to delay institutionalization of dementia people. Implementing onsite support programs meets obstacles during the Covid-19 pandemic, internet-based interventions could be considered as a potential alternative.Methods: This is a pre-post pilot intervention study for primary family caregivers of community-dwelling people with dementia. The 8-week intervention program was delivered to the participants using ZOOM meetings software. This program consisted of 8 modules (one for each week): 1) reflecting on my caregiving journey, 2) understanding about dementia as a caregiver, 3) taking care of myself, 4) managing stress, 5) communicating with others, 6) learning how to take care of dementia people, 7) pleasant daily life, and 8) planning my caregiving journey. To assess the effects of the program, five caregiver's outcomes were measured: Positive Aspects of Caregiving, (PAC), Caregiving Self-Efficacy Scale (CgSES), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), Health Risk Behaviors (HRB), and satisfaction.Results: 20 caregivers participated and 18 fully completed the pilot program. The participants have the mean age is 70.6, and 3.5 years playing the role of a family caregiver.The study findings found that the program significantly improved the PAC (P = .001), PSS (P = .027), and three sub-domains of HRB: physical health (P < .000), mental health (P = .048), and leisure activities (P = .023). Whereas, though scores of the CgSES, and three remaining sub-domains of HRB: care difficulty, building relationships, and getting help from others were better at the posttest compared with the pretest, these changes were not statistically significant. The participants scored 4.72 (maximum is 5) for their satisfaction with the program. Conclusion:This intervention program successfully improved quality of life and experience of the family caregivers related to their caregiving. Such online programs are
Objectives: This study aimed to analyze the outcomes of the Comprehensive Health and Social Need Assessment (CHSNA) system, which identifies community residents’ health and social needs, and to link these needs with the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF). Methods: Adult community residents in a metropolitan city in Korea were recruited. They were asked to assess their health and social needs via the CHSNA system, which was integrated into an online community-care platform. Three assessment steps (basic health assessment, needs for activities of daily living, and in-depth health assessment) associated with five ICF components were used to evaluate physical health impairment, difficulties in activities and participation, and environmental problems. The final list of health and social needs was systematically linked to the domains and categories of the ICF. Only data from participants who completed all three assessment steps were included.Results: Wide ranges of impairments and difficulties regarding the daily living activities, physical health, and environmental status of the community were recorded from 190 people who completed assessments of their health and social needs by the CHSNA system. These participants reported various health and social needs for their community life; common needs corresponded to the ICF components of body functions and activities/participation. Conclusions: The ICF may be suitable for determining the health-related problems and needs of the general population. Possible improvements to the present system include providing support for completing all assessment steps and developing an ICF core set for an enhanced understanding of health and social needs.
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