Intervention on Caregivers Caring for Patients Poststroke With Upper Limb Apraxia

NCT ID: NCT02307019

Last Updated: 2018-10-05

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 50 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2014-07-31
• Study Completion Date: 2018-09-30

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of a intervention on a specific health prevention/intervention program aimed at caregivers of mild and moderate patients post stroke with upper limb apraxia in comparison to a control group with a no specific formation in that kind of patients.

Detailed Description

Patients with Upper limb apraxia after stroke have severe problems to adapt their daily life.

The upper limb apraxia syndrome affects the performance of skilled movements carried out by the upper limbs and provoke that many patients´activities have to be made by their main caregiver or carers.

Caregivers usually have to occupy much time and efforts for caring their familiar or client, and it can result in a overload in different areas of the caregiver health.

Few data are available on the effectiveness of interventions in caregivers that informally works with that kind of patients.

The specific prevention health program is based on improving the awareness of the assistance that the caregivers provide, and knowing the process of the information that carer has to give to the patient while the patients have their activities made.

Conditions

Performance Anxiety; Emotional Stress

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

Program on specific prevention of health

The caregivers will be randomly assigned to an experimental group, to receive the program on specific prevention of health. The workshop will be performed twice a month, two hours a day, during a 4-week period.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Program on specific prevention of health

Intervention Type: OTHER

The intervention will be centered in provide effective tools to manage each situation presented while a caregiver cares for patients poststroke with upper limb apraxia. Moreover, the workshops will be focused on the balance between the assistance provided by the caregiver and the improvement and the increase the autonomy and independence of the patients. Finally, we will provide skills and strategies to the caregiver for enhancing the environment adaptation of the patients.

Program on general prevention of health

Control group will receive an intervention by mean of a general health program to manage the common situations when a caregiver is caring for a patient with dependency. The workshop will be performed two a month, two hours a day, during a 4-week period.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Program on general prevention of health

Intervention Type: OTHER

The general health educative program will consist in an educational workshop for caregivers where they are taught the habitual guidelines to caring for patients in situation of dependency.

Interventions

Program on specific prevention of health

The intervention will be centered in provide effective tools to manage each situation presented while a caregiver cares for patients poststroke with upper limb apraxia. Moreover, the workshops will be focused on the balance between the assistance provided by the caregiver and the improvement and the increase the autonomy and independence of the patients. Finally, we will provide skills and strategies to the caregiver for enhancing the environment adaptation of the patients.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Program on general prevention of health

The general health educative program will consist in an educational workshop for caregivers where they are taught the habitual guidelines to caring for patients in situation of dependency.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Other Intervention Names

Program of specific intervention for caregivers; Program on traditional intervention for caregivers

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Having an habitual role of carer (informal or formal).
• Being caring a mild-moderate poststroke patient with upper limb apraxia.
• Subjective manifestations of overload in the role as carer.
• More than two month as carer.

Exclusion Criteria

• Uncooperativeness
• Being formed in the care of that kind of patients

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 90 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Universidad de Granada

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Encarnación Aguilar Ferrandiz

Intervention on caregivers caring for patients poststroke with upper limb apraxia: Randomized Clinical Trial

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Mª Encarnacion ME Aguilar, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Department of Physiotherapy. Faculty of Sciences of Health. University of Granada (Granada). Spain

Locations

University of Granada

Granada, Andalusia, Spain

Countries

Spain

Other Identifiers

Caregiver patients apraxia

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id