Evaluating the Care Burden of Caregivers of Patients With Brain Injury and Determining the Influencing Factors

NCT ID: NCT04936360

Last Updated: 2021-11-29

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 60 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-04-15
• Study Completion Date: 2021-09-15

Brief Summary

Acquired brain injury is a general term including trauma due to head injury or postsurgical damage, vascular accident such as stroke or subarachnoid hemorrhage, toxic or metabolic cause such as hypoglycemia, cerebral anoxia, and infection or inflammation. However acquired brain injury leaves survivors with a considerable burden of physical, cognitive, emotional,behavioural and psychosocial limitations,these individuals often require healthcare, supervision, and support from professional or informal caregivers in some or all of their lives. Therefore, this study have two primary aims: (1) to conclude the level of caregiver's life satisfaction and strain; and (2) to determine the factors predicting strain among the caregivers. İnvestigators believe this study can add to the literature and create awareness on the current state of caregiver's well-being in this part of the world.

Detailed Description

Patients will evaluate with respect to their demographic and clinical determinants. In the patient group, ambulation status, disability levels, cognitive status, neurobehavioral results, functional status will evaluate with the Functional Ambulation Classification Scale (FACS), Disability Rating Scale (DRS), Rancho Los Amigos Cognitive Scale-Revised (RLAS-R), Neurobehavioral Rating Scale-Revised (NBRS-R), Functional Independence Measure (FIM) respectively. All assessments will conduct and evaluate by the treating physicians during hospitalization.

İnvestigators also will record the type of caregiving (family member or paid professional) and socio-demographic characteristics of the caregivers . Sleep quality will be determined with Pittsburgh Sleep Quality İndex (PSQI), quality of life with NHP (Nottingham Health Profile), level and risk of anxiety and depression with Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, satisfaction level with The Satisfaction with Life Scale , care burden with Caregiver Strain Index (CSI).

Conditions

Brain Injuries; Caregiver Burden

Keywords

Caregiver; Brain injury; Burden; Caregiver Strain Index

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: OTHER
• Study Time Perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL

Study Groups

Patient Group

Patients with non-progressive non-neurodegenerative acquired brain damage, who were over 18 years of age, who could establish voluntary social communication will be included in the study.

questionnaires for clinical assessments

Intervention Type: OTHER

questionnaires for clinical assessments

Caregivers Group

Caregivers over the age of 18, who took care of the patient for at least 1 month, and who did not have premorbid medical or psychological problems will be included in the study.

questionnaires for clinical assessments

Intervention Type: OTHER

questionnaires for clinical assessments

Interventions

questionnaires for clinical assessments

questionnaires for clinical assessments

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• have a nonprogressive, non-neurodegenerative acquired brain injury
• able to read or understand the questionnaire
• at least 18 years of age

• primary caregiver of a patient diagnosed with acquired brain injury
• at least 18 years of age
• had provided care for at least one month
• providing care to the patient for more than 4 h per day
• did not have any major premorbid medical and psychological illnesses
• able to read or understand the questionnaire

Exclusion Criteria

• under 18 years of age
• inability to read and understand questions.

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

Sponsors

Gaziler Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Education and Research Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Yasin Demir

Associate professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Fatma Özcan, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Gaziler Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Training and Research Hospital, Department of PMR

Locations

Fatma Özcan

Ankara, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

16

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id