NCT00271375

Evaluating the Carter Institute Caregiver Education Program at the VA

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 254 (actual)
• Sponsor: VA Office of Research and Development · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This project implemented and evaluated the Rosalyn Carter Institute's (RCI's) educational and support program for caregivers, "Caring for You, Caring for Me." Specifically, it examined effects of the program upon family caregivers to older adults in the Atlanta area and elderly Veterans receiving outpatient primary care at the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC).

Detailed description

Primary objectives of the research were: 1. to evaluate user satisfaction with and perceived utility of the "Caring for You, Caring for Me" caregiver educational program among formal (VHA staff) and informal (family) caregivers who undergo the program; 2. to assess effects of the program upon psychosocial and physical well-being of informal caregivers over a 1-year period .

Conditions

• Caregivers

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Caring For You, Caring For Me	5-week Education and Support Program for Caregivers of older adults.
BEHAVIORAL	Caring for you, caring for me + social worker	5-week Education and Support Program for Caregivers of older adults.+ augmentation with social worker
BEHAVIORAL	Control	Control group usual care

Timeline

• Start date: 2005-10-01
• Primary completion: 2009-08-01
• Completion: 2009-10-01
• First posted: 2005-12-30
• Last updated: 2016-05-30
• Results posted: 2016-05-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States