The prepared family caregiver: a problem-solving approach to family caregiver education

Houts, Peter S.; Nezu, Arthur M.; Nezu, Christine Maguth; Bucher, Julia A.

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“…L'aidant principal devient ici un véritable relais de l'équipe soignante qui permet d'améliorer le suivi du malade. L'aidant familial contribue significativement à la qualité de vie du patient en l'aidant à contrôler ses symptômes et en notant de manière précoce les problèmes afin de prévenir les problèmes médicaux plus sérieux qui pourraient se développer [20].…”

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Vivre avec un proche malade : évaluation des dimensions positive et négative de l’expérience des aidants naturels

Antoine

Quandalle

Christophe

2010

Annales Médico-psychologiques, revue psychiatrique

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Please cite this article as: Antoine P, Quandalle S, Christophe V, Vivre avec un proche malade :évaluation des dimensions positive et négative de l'expérience des aidants naturels, Annales medio-psychologiques (2008), doi:10.1016/j.amp.2007.06.012 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. AbstractThe growing prevalence of chronic diseases and the greater reliance on outpatient care have shifted the demands from professional caregivers towards natural caregivers. Patients and their family members are based in their homes with complicated therapies to administer. Since a natural caregiver is a key to home care, if the burden becomes too great, the home care support may be threatened. Subjective burden aims to refer to the embarrassment or role overload that may be experienced when giving care at home. Caregivers can experience an alteration in their psychological and physical health due to the new situation. Health care professionals need to be aware of these problems, and they need instruments to assess the impact on the natural caregivers.There has been a growing interest on the part of researchers over the past thirty years in exploring and in developing methodologically sound instruments to measure the caregiving experience.Researchers and clinicians involved in these projects have come from a wide spectrum of medical and psychological domains, including psychiatry, gerontology, psycho-oncology, and somatic medicine. A number of instruments may be appropriate, but while many of these instruments have individual strengths and weaknesses two instruments deserve to be recommended. More specifically, one of these is Given and Given's Caregiver Reaction Assessment (CRA) which was correctly developed and tested, and contains the most areas of interest. The authors are experts in the field, and their instrument has been used satisfactorily by other researchers. The CRA was developed and tested in a study conducted among caregivers of patients with various disorders and this study revealed excellent psychometric properties. The original English version of the CRA Page 3 of 26 A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t 3 was translated into French by six researchers. Each made his own translation. These translations were compared and a consensus was reached for each of the 24 items. A professional translator retranslated the French version into English and a discussion on minor differences led to the final version of the French CRA. The translated CRA is expected to have the same structure as that found for the original instrument or other translated forms (Nijboer et al., 1999). This article addresses the ...

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Vivre avec un proche malade : évaluation des dimensions positive et négative de l’expérience des aidants naturels

Antoine

Quandalle

Christophe

2010

Annales Médico-psychologiques, revue psychiatrique

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“…Aneshensel et al 26 found that when informal assistance with care tasks was provided to caregivers, depressive symptoms elevated initially, but as this informal assistance continued over time, caregiver depressive symptoms decreased. Houts et al 27 posit that preparing caregivers to carry out caregiving duties and effectively problem solve should facilitate effective caregiving and an enhanced sense of efficacy. Effective problem-solving skills have the potential to alter not only the experience but also the caregiver's reaction to that experience.…”

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A Randomized, Controlled Trial of a Patient/Caregiver Symptom Control Intervention: Effects on Depressive Symptomatology of Caregivers of Cancer Patients

Kurtz

Given

et al. 2005

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

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In this study, we investigated whether a clinical nursing intervention focusing on teaching family caregivers and their cancer patients skills to better manage the patients' symptoms would reduce caregiver depressive symptomatology. Two hundred thirty-seven patient/caregiver dyads were recruited for the study. These dyads were randomized into either the 10-contact, 20-week experimental intervention group (n = 118), which focused on assisting the patient and caregiver in managing patient symptoms and reducing emotional distress, or to a conventional care control group (n = 119). A longitudinal random effects regression analysis did not indicate that the clinical nursing intervention was effective in decreasing caregiver depression over the 20-week course of the study. The relationship of the intervention to caregiver depressive symptomatology seems to be a complex one. We recommend further research to explore whether a lengthened intervention and/or delayed follow-up might reveal delayed positive effects of such interventions.

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“…1 the other worlds service automatically generates different domains such as travelling or cooking in which to generate care plan enhancements to a current situation 2 the analogical reasoning discovery service computationally matches a current situation to good care practices from non-care domainssuch as parenting and prisons 3 the case-based reasoning discovery service computationally matches a current situation to good care practices from the residential care sector based on reported good care practices (Houts et al, 1996) 4 the creativity prompt generation service automatically generates statements from retrieved good care practices that care staff can use to generate new ideas about care enhancement plans.…”

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“…Other members include attack, assault and bully and 20 other verbs as potential expansions. The service constrains use of expansion to verb members that achieve a threshold on the degree of attributional similarity computed with WordNetbased similarity measurements (Houts et al, 1996). Given two sets of text, T1 and T2, the measurement determines how similar the meaning of T1 and T2 is scored between 0 and 1.…”

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“…Arbesman and Puccio (2001) also put the case for creative problem solving by nursing administrators who set the tone in a work unit, and how others undertake creative work. Houts et al (1996) proposed a prescriptive creative problem-solving model to help family carers deliver care to people with chronic diseases discharged from hospital. The model was tailored to the healthcare domain from the Osborn-Parnes creative problem solving model (Osborn, 1965).…”

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Digital creativity in dementia care support

Zachos

Maiden

Pitts

et al. 2013

IJCRC

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This paper reports the application of digital creativity to the care for people with dementia. A digital app was developed for use by staff in residential homes caring for people with dementia. The app invokes a set of computational services to undertake creative work, the results of which are presented to encourage and support cognitive creativity by care staff. The services undertake computational work such as retrieving resolutions to care problems encountered previously, matching care situations to situations in analogical domains such as parenting, teaching and prison life, and automatically generating customised creativity prompts. The app was designed so that care staff can generate contributions to resident care plans that are novel and hence individualised to the resident as part of a shift towards more person-centred care.

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The prepared family caregiver: a problem-solving approach to family caregiver education

Cited by 166 publications

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Vivre avec un proche malade : évaluation des dimensions positive et négative de l’expérience des aidants naturels

Vivre avec un proche malade : évaluation des dimensions positive et négative de l’expérience des aidants naturels

A Randomized, Controlled Trial of a Patient/Caregiver Symptom Control Intervention: Effects on Depressive Symptomatology of Caregivers of Cancer Patients

Digital creativity in dementia care support

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