Accompanying ALZHEIMER CAREGIVER (ACCAIDANT)

ALZHEIMER'S CAREGIVER Accompaniment

Initiatives have been taken hotline in France and abroad for other conditions, they provide support to patients and their caregivers.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Alzheimer Disease
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: semi-structured interview

Detailed Description

This is a descriptive pilot study, non-interventional, before / after, mono-centric, evaluative, prospective cohort with type score description. The tool used is the grid "mini Zarit", she evaluates the caregiver burden. This grid is enabled in the French version and commonly used in these pathologies.

The evaluation of the quality of life of the caregiver will be performed with the scale "EQ-5D". This tool is easy to use phone, it contains few items. Also there is very little evidence referring to the suffering or negative feelings. It therefore avoids inducing to helping unknown team consultation memory an emotionally negative discourse.

There is no validated tool measuring the service delivered to a nurse hotline. The investigators offer a nurse questionnaire 7 items grouping expectations for the first consultation memory (consultation period, diagnosis, course of the consultation, organization of monitoring). It also provides an update on the daily experiences of the caregiver relative to the organization of care and helped the organization of domestic life of helped.

Nursing questionnaire will assess whether the responses of the nurse in relation to questions about the memory request for consultation were understood in relation to the items. Also, if the caregiver is in support of application in everyday life, the questionnaire will determine if the nursing accompaniment allows the caregiver to acquire knowledge or skills, or better organization of everyday life. The question of the entourage of the caregiver assesses the isolation level of the caregiver and whether the environment is not mobilized or after an update with the nurse.

If help is hospitalized, the pattern will be recovered. The Scientific Council will assess whether the information collected and the information provided would have prevented it.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 45

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Pessac, France, 33600
    • CHU de Bordeaux

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Helping with age ≥ 18 years, speaking and understanding the French and available to accompany the patient to the consultation

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Helping with age ≥ 18 years
• Helping speak and understand the French
• Help available to accompany the patient to the consultation
• Helping calling for the first time the memory center
• Helping who noticed a cognitive disorder in assisted
• Age over 75 years
• beneficiary or affiliated to a social security scheme Patient
• Patient with a cognitive disorder noticed by the caregiver

Exclusion Criteria:

• Helping placed under judicial protection
• Any medical or paramedical personnel in connection with the care of a nursing home eligible patient (Accommodation Establishment for dependent elderly, hospital, SSR (Care and Rehabilitation Services), institutional caregivers,
• private health professionals, such as neighborhood (doctor, nurse liberal, physiotherapist
• Neighborhood.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
ALZHEIMER CAREGIVER; Caregiver available to accompany the patient to the consultation, helping calling for the first time the memory center, aidant who noticed a cognitive disorder help, having a family link identified with the patient	Other: semi-structured interview; The tool used is a nurse card: there is no validated tool on the expectations of the caregiver in his memory referral. This is a pragmatic and practical questionnaire memory consultation request and domestic life with few items, practical use by telephone.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
score of the grid "MiniZarit"	The evaluation of the quality of life of the caregiver, score between 0 and 7. point for positive response for difficulties in family life, difficulties in relationships with friends, hobbies, or in your job, a repercussion on health (physical and / or psychological), feeling that caregiver is no longer recognizing his parent, he afraid for the future of his parent, he would like to be (more) helped to take care of his parent, he feel a burden in taking care of his parent.	Month 1
score of the EuroQuol scale	The evaluation of the quality of life of the caregiver The point repartition : Mobility (1 point : to have no problem getting around on foot ; 2 : to have problems getting around on foot; 3. to oblige to remain in bed) Self-sufficiency (1 point : to have no problem taking care of myself; 2 : to have problems washing or dressing myself alone;3 : to be unable to wash or dress myself alone) Regular activities (1 point : to have no problem performing my daily activities (eg work, study, housework, family activities or hobbies) ;2. : to have problems to perform my day-to-day activities;3. : to be unable to perform my normal activities.) Pain / discomfort (1. : to have no pain or discomfort; 2. : to have moderate pain or discomfort (s), 3. : to have severe pain or discomfort (s)) Anxiety / Depression (1. : to be not anxious or depressed; 2. : to be moderately anxious or depressed ;3. : to be extremely anxious or depressed)	Month 1

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of days between pre-clinical consultation and consultation MEMORY	Impact of pre-clinical consultation on information support in consultation MEMORY	Month 3
Questionnary for caregivers' organization	Evalution of professional helpers, number of technical assistance (remote alarm ...), nature of handicap , presence of correction device, number of taking medication drugs, Sleep is good or not, recent weight evolution	Day 1
Questionnary for caregivers' organization	Evalution of professional helpers, number of technical assistance (remote alarm ...), nature of handicap , presence of correction device, number of taking medication drugs, Sleep is good or not, recent weight evolution	Month 1

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University Hospital, Bordeaux
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Isabelle GUILLARD, University of Bordeaux

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): December 12, 2018
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 7, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): June 7, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 21, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 20, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): June 21, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 1, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 26, 2019
• Last Verified: May 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Brain Diseases; Central Nervous System Diseases; Nervous System Diseases; Neurocognitive Disorders; Neurodegenerative Diseases; Dementia; Tauopathies; Alzheimer Disease
• Other Study ID Numbers: CHUBX 2016/48

Drug and device information, study documents

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