Evaluation of the Stroke Caregiver Education and Support Program

NCT ID: NCT01355029

Last Updated: 2016-03-16

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 43 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2011-02-28
• Study Completion Date: 2012-12-31

Brief Summary

The study will be evaluating to a 4 week education and support program for stroke caregivers. The 4 week program will provide education, information, and strategies for dealing with areas that caregivers may find challenging in their caregiving role. The study will evaluate the effectiveness of the program to decrease the caregiver's stress, strain and burden, increase the caregiver's knowledge of strategies and community services and increase their role satisfaction as a stroke caregiver and quality of life two weeks after the program and 6 months after the program.

Detailed Description

The modules in the program are: 1) Program Introduction, sharing Caregiving Stories and an introduction to Self Management; 2) Community Connections; Session 3 and 4 are chosen by the participants during session 1 from 6 possible options: Communication in your relationship; Cognition, Memory and Personhood; Dealing with your Emotions; Managing your Stress; Changing roles in your relationships and How to be Caregiver Smart? The programs provides education, information and strategies to deal with the areas that caregivers struggle with as caregivers in order to help them feel better able to prepared to manage as caregivers. Also, the investigators also hope to develop some beginning understanding of when is the best time to provide the program to stroke caregivers to be most helpful to them in their caregiving role.

Conditions

Stroke

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Interventions

Stroke Caregiver Education and Support Program

4 week program offered weekly over a 4 week period. Each session is a 2 hour small group guided discussion on the topic area facilitated by 2 trained facilitators. The topics are: Program Introduction, sharing Caregiving Stories and an introduction to Self Management; Community Connections; Session 3 and 4 are chosen by the participants during session 1 from 6 possible options: Communication in your relationship; Cognition, Memory and Personhood; Dealing with your Emotions; Managing your Stress; Changing roles in your relationships and How to be Caregiver Smart?

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

FICSS Program

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Informal unpaid family stroke caregivers

• 18 years of age or older;
• Have provided care to stroke survivor within the home for at least 2 months;
• Have the ability to communicate in English;
• Live within Central South Ontario Stroke Region or the West GTA Stroke Region.

Exclusion Criteria

Caregivers who:

• Paid to provide care;
• Are friends who provide care to stroke survivor;
• Are providing palliative care to stroke survivor within the home.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

March of Dimes, Canada

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Gail Mores

Director, National and Provincial Programs

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Gail Mores, B.Sc. Rec.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

March of Dimes, Canada

Locations

Hamilton Health Sciences

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Countries

Canada

Other Identifiers

10-668

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

OSN1101-000119

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id