Learned Resourcefulness Intervention

Effect of Learned Resourcefulness Intervention on Learned Resourcefulness, Caregiver Burden, Quality of Life for Older Family Caregivers

This study aimed to test the effects of a learned resourcefulness interveniton program on the learned resourcefulness, caregiver burden, quality of life for older family caregivers.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Quality of Life; Caregiver Burden; Self-Control
• Intervention / Treatment: Procedure: learned resourcefulness intervention

Detailed Description

A quasi-experimental trail will be used to test the effects of a learned resourcefulness intervention program on the learned resourcefulness, caregiver burden, quality of life for older family caregivers. Through the use of convenience sampling strategy, one teaching medical hospital with approximately 104 older family caregivers in southern Taiwan will be recruited and simple randomly assigned based on teaching medical hospital to a Learned resourcefulness intervention program experimental group or a wait-list control group. Participants in the experimental group will receive the learned resourcefulness intervention program led by researcher, one time per week, 50 minutes for one week, 10 minutes for these weeks; participants in the wait-list control group will continue to receive their home care service. One pre-test and two post-tests, all participants will assessed for learned resourcefulness, caregiver burden, quality of life at baseline, and at 5 and 9 weeks of the study.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 94
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Taiwan
  • Chiayi city, Taiwan, 61363
    • Meng-Chun Chen (MCC)

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 60 years to 100 years (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• aged 60 and above
• family caregivers of disabled adults who received home care service
• cognitively intact as assessed by SPMSQ score of 8 and above
• disabled adults will assessed by Barthel Index score of 60 and bellow
• able to answer questions

Exclusion Criteria:

• participants with severe mental disabilities

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Interventional Model: PARALLEL
• Masking: SINGLE

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: Learned resourcefulness intervention; The learned resourcefulness program includes: 1) Solving problem strategy, 2) Organizing daily actions, 3) Using self-regulation, 4) Reframing positive situations, 5) Changing negative self-thinking, 6) Exploring new thinking and skills. It is conducted one time per week.	Procedure: learned resourcefulness intervention; The LR program includes: 1) Solving problem strategy, 2) Organizing daily actions, 3) Using self-regulation, 4) Reframing positive situations, 5) Changing negative self-thinking, 6) Exploring new thinking and skills. It is conducted one time per week.
NO_INTERVENTION: Usual home care service; The control group maintains home care service

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Self-control as the learned resourcefulness measured by Rosenbaum's self control schedule	which is a 36-item scale, is used to measure the cognitive and problem-solving skills, the higher the score, the better a self-control of a person	9 weeks
Caregiver burden measured by caregiver burden scale	which is a 20-item scale by Lee and Wu, The total score ranges between 0 and 60, with a higher score representing a higher degree of burden.	9 weeks
Quality of life measured by EuroQol five dimension scale (ED-5Q)	The EuroQol five dimension scale (ED-5Q) developed by the EuroQol Group, the higher the score, the better the state of health.	9 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ACTUAL): January 6, 2019
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): April 1, 2019
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): April 12, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 22, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 22, 2018
• First Posted (ACTUAL): October 24, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): January 28, 2021
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 27, 2021
• Last Verified: January 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Behavioral Symptoms; Stress, Psychological; Caregiver Burden
• Other Study ID Numbers: 201801443B0C501

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No