Study Results
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COMPLETED
NA
92 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2012-10-31
2015-01-31
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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The intervention program "Resources to Enhance Alzheimer's Caregivers Health -second step" (REACH II) is a multimodal, individualized and structured multi-component intervention program for family caregivers and was successfully evaluated in a multisite, randomized and controlled trial in the USA. The overall objectives of REACH II are to identify and reduce modificable risk factors to enhance the well-being of the caregivers and to enhance the quality of care. It takes place at caregivers home and focuses on 5 domains that are important to caregivers: reducing depression, decreasing burden, improving self care, enhancing social support, and managing problem behaviours.
Since there is a lack of effective treatment programs for family caregivers of demented persons in the German Health system respectively care system the purpose of the present study is to adapt and to implement REACH II to the care system conditions of a medium-sized East German town (Leipzig). To test the effects of this adapted intervention program the present study is design as unisite, randomized and controlled trail. Primary outcome is reducing family caregiver burden.
Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
TREATMENT
NONE
Study Groups
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GE-REACH-program
GE-REACH-program
GE-REACH-program
The intervention program "Resources to Enhance Alzheimer's Caregivers Health -second step" (REACH II) is a multimodal, individualized and structured multi-component intervention program for family caregivers
control group
usual care
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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GE-REACH-program
The intervention program "Resources to Enhance Alzheimer's Caregivers Health -second step" (REACH II) is a multimodal, individualized and structured multi-component intervention program for family caregivers
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* living with or sharing cooking facilities with the care recipient
* providing care for a relative with a medical diagnosed Alzheimer disease or related disorder, vascular dementia or behavior variant frontotemporal dementia for at least 4 hours per day for at least the past 6 months
Exclusion Criteria
* actual psychiatric diagnosis of mental illness
* illness that would prevent 6 months of study participation
* forthcoming institutionalization of the person being cared.
Other requirements were logistic, including having a telephone, planning to remain in the geographic area for at least 6 months, and competency in German.
ALL
No
Sponsors
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University of Leipzig
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Hermann-Josef Gertz
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigators
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Hermann-Josef Gertz, Prof. Dr.
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie der Universität Leipzig
Locations
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Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Countries
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References
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Belle SH, Burgio L, Burns R, Coon D, Czaja SJ, Gallagher-Thompson D, Gitlin LN, Klinger J, Koepke KM, Lee CC, Martindale-Adams J, Nichols L, Schulz R, Stahl S, Stevens A, Winter L, Zhang S; Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer's Caregiver Health (REACH) II Investigators. Enhancing the quality of life of dementia caregivers from different ethnic or racial groups: a randomized, controlled trial. Ann Intern Med. 2006 Nov 21;145(10):727-38. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-145-10-200611210-00005.
Berwig M, Heinrich S, Spahlholz J, Hallensleben N, Brahler E, Gertz HJ. Individualized support for informal caregivers of people with dementia - effectiveness of the German adaptation of REACH II. BMC Geriatr. 2017 Dec 12;17(1):286. doi: 10.1186/s12877-017-0678-y.
Heinrich S, Berwig M, Simon A, Janichen J, Hallensleben N, Nickel W, Hinz A, Brahler E, Gertz HJ. German adaptation of the Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer's Caregiver Health II: study protocol of a single-centred, randomised controlled trial. BMC Geriatr. 2014 Feb 12;14:21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2318-14-21.
Other Identifiers
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IIA5-2512FSB552
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id