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Efficiency of an Educational Program for Informal Caregivers of Hospitalized, Dependent Patients: Cluster Randomised Trial

NCT ID: NCT01965392

Last Updated: 2013-10-18

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

151 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2009-03-31

Study Completion Date

2010-03-31

Brief Summary

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The aim was to assess whether nursing interventions based on Health Educational Programs for primary informal caregivers of dependent patients may improve their quality of life, decreasing emotional burden and increasing caregiving knowledge, in order to better meet patients' basic needs.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Dependence, Dementias

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Caregivers

Study Groups

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healtn education

one group received an educational program

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Health education intervention

Intervention Type OTHER

'Health education intervention'

Interventions

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Health education intervention

'Health education intervention'

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Primary informal caregivers of dependent patients, admitted in 30 hospital units, with expected hospital stays of at least one week. A dependent patient is understood to require the aid of someone else in order to carry out basic daily activities.

Exclusion Criteria

* caregivers with cognitive deficits that could be an obstacle for adequate verbal understanding, illiteracy, persons taking part in other clinical trials or who had taken part in similar workshops in the previous two years, as well as health professionals.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Fundacion para la Investigacion Biomedica del Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Other Identifiers

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ESCPD-2010

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id