Group Interventions To Support Family Caregivers: A Review and Analysis

Toseland, Ronald W.; Rossiter, Charles M.

doi:10.1093/geront/29.4.438

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“…any group session were assigned to group 0. Controls were also assigned to dummy groups based on date of study entry (groups [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. Group (0-19) was then entered as a random effect to control for potential variability between groups that may affect outcomes.…”

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Evaluation of a Telephone-Based Support Group Intervention for Female Caregivers of Community-Dwelling Individuals With Dementia

Winter

Gitlin

2007

Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen

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Family caregivers, the “second victims” or hidden patients in dementia care, are at risk for social isolation, stress, depression, and mortality. Telephone-based support (telesupport groups) represents a practical, low-burden, low-cost source of emotional support. The present study evaluated the feasibility and effectiveness of professionally led telephone-based support groups for female family caregivers of community-dwelling dementia patients. Recruited through various community sources, 103 female caregivers were randomized to the telesupport group treatment or a control condition. Effects on caregiver burden, depression, and personal gains were evaluated at 6 months, the main end point. Older care-givers (≥65) in telesupport reported lower depression than control group caregivers did.

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“…6 Support groups have been widely promoted to reduce the social isolation that often attends caregiving. [7][8][9][10][11][12][13] Yet for some caregivers, caregiving demands or inadequate time or transportation make it difficult to attend face-to-face group meetings. For such caregivers, telephone-based groups may provide much-needed emotional support.…”

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Evaluation of a Telephone-Based Support Group Intervention for Female Caregivers of Community-Dwelling Individuals With Dementia

Winter

Gitlin

2007

Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen

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“…Caregiver interventions have used dierent strategies, the elements of which can be categorized into three broad strands (see Table 1)Ðpsycho-logical, educational and social (see reviews by Toseland and Rossiter, 1989). The outcomes of these interventions are variable.…”

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The Prince Henry Hospital Dementia Caregivers? Training Programme

Brodaty

Gresham

Luscombe

1997

Int. J. Geriat. Psychiatry

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Objective. To describe the theory, elements and practice of a successful caregiver training programme; and report the 8‐year outcome. Design. Prospective, randomized control trial and longitudinal follow‐up over approximately 8 years. Setting. Psychiatry unit, general teaching hospital, Sydney, Australia. Participants. 96 persons less than 80 years old with mild to moderate dementia and their cohabiting caregivers. Interventions. All patients received a 10‐day structured memory retraining and activity programme. Caregivers in the immediate and wait‐list caregiver training groups received a structured, residential, intensive 10‐day training programme, boosted by follow‐ups and telephone conferences over 12 months. Those in the wait‐list group entered the programme after waiting 6 months. The third group of caregivers received 10 days’ respite (while patients underwent their memory retraining programme) and 12 months booster sessions as for the other groups. Main outcome measures. Nursing home admission; time until patient death. Main results. 64% of patients whose caregivers were in the immediate training group, 53% of wait‐list group patients and 70% of memory retraining patients had died. Nursing home admission had occurred in 79% of the immediate training, 83% of the delayed and 90% of the memory retraining group. Eight‐year survival analysis indicated that patients whose caregivers received training stayed at home significantly longer (p = 0.037) and tended to live longer (p = 0.08). Conclusions. Caregiver training programmes demonstrably can delay institutionalization of people with dementia. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…B. Kramer & Kipnis, 1995;Young & Kahana, 1989 Brodaty, 1992;Knight, Lutzky & Macofsky-Urban, 1993;Schulz et al, 2002;Thompson & Briggs, 2000;Toseland & Rossiter, 1989).…”

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“…In vielen Fällen wurden keine Längsschnittstudien, sondern einmalige Messungen durchgeführt (Toseland & Rossiter, 1989). Außerdem fehlt es oft an angemessenen Strategien für die Evaluation von Programmen (Zarit & Leitsch, 2001 (Haley, Bown & Levine, 1987;Quayhagen & Quayhagen, 1989;Smith, Forster & Young, 2004;Zarit, Anthony & Boutselis, 1987), sowie Skalen zum allgemeinem Wohlbefinden und Coping (Choi, Lavohn & Christensen, 1983).…”

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Evaluation eines psychoedukativen Kurses für Angehörige von Schlaganfallpatienten

Heier

Lännler

Steinhagen‐Thiessen

2002

Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie

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Zusammenfassung: In dem vorliegenden Artikel wurde ein psychoedukativer Kurs für Angehörige von Schlaganfallpatienten entwickelt und in einem Längsschnitt-Kontrollgruppen-Design mit 3 Messzeitpunkten evaluiert. Insgesamt wurden 85 Angehörige untersucht. Als Messinstrumente kamen Selbstratingskalen zu Depression, Angst und körperlichen Beschwerden zum Einsatz. Zusätzlich wurden die globale subjektive Belastung, das Schlaganfall-spezifische Wissen, die Nutzung psychosozialer Entlastungsangebote und der subjektiv erlebte Nutzen des Kurses erhoben. Die Kursteilnehmer zeigten im Gegensatz zur Kontrollgruppe eine signifikante Zunahme des Schlaganfall-spezifischen Wissens und nutzten mehr Entlastungsangebote. Die subjektive Belastung nahm nur bei den Kursteilnehmern im zeitlichen Verlauf ab. Der Nutzen des Kurses wurde als sehr hoch eingeschätzt. In den standardisierten Skalen zum psychischen und körperlichen Befinden konnten in keiner der beiden Gruppen signifikante Veränderungen im zeitlichen Verlauf festgestellt werden. Dies wird u. a. darauf zurückgeführt, dass emotionale Verarbeitungsmuster resistenter gegenüber Veränderungen sind, als Verhaltenskomponenten.

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Group Interventions To Support Family Caregivers: A Review and Analysis

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Evaluation of a Telephone-Based Support Group Intervention for Female Caregivers of Community-Dwelling Individuals With Dementia

Evaluation of a Telephone-Based Support Group Intervention for Female Caregivers of Community-Dwelling Individuals With Dementia

The Prince Henry Hospital Dementia Caregivers? Training Programme

Evaluation eines psychoedukativen Kurses für Angehörige von Schlaganfallpatienten

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