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

October 15, 2013 updated by: Fundacion para la Investigacion Biomedica del Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal
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.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

151

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

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.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: Single

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: healtn education
one group received an educational program
Other: Health education intervention
'Health education intervention'

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
life quality
Time Frame: Data were evaluated with an average one month after discharge, a maximum in September 2009
Data were evaluated with an average one month after discharge, a maximum in September 2009

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Caregiver´s burden
Time Frame: Data were evaluated with an average one month after discharge, a maximum in September 2009
Data were evaluated with an average one month after discharge, a maximum in September 2009

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Fundacion para la Investigacion Biomedica del Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

March 1, 2009

Primary Completion (Actual)

December 1, 2009

Study Completion (Actual)

March 1, 2010

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

October 7, 2013

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

October 15, 2013

First Posted (Estimate)

October 18, 2013

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

October 18, 2013

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

October 15, 2013

Last Verified

October 1, 2013

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Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • ESCPD-2010

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