NCT02307019

Intervention on Caregivers Caring for Patients Poststroke With Upper Limb Apraxia

Intervention on Caregivers Caring for Patients Poststroke With Upper Limb Apraxia: Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad de Granada · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of a intervention on a specific health prevention/intervention program aimed at caregivers of mild and moderate patients post stroke with upper limb apraxia in comparison to a control group with a no specific formation in that kind of patients.

Detailed description

Patients with Upper limb apraxia after stroke have severe problems to adapt their daily life. The upper limb apraxia syndrome affects the performance of skilled movements carried out by the upper limbs and provoke that many patients´activities have to be made by their main caregiver or carers. Caregivers usually have to occupy much time and efforts for caring their familiar or client, and it can result in a overload in different areas of the caregiver health. Few data are available on the effectiveness of interventions in caregivers that informally works with that kind of patients. The specific prevention health program is based on improving the awareness of the assistance that the caregivers provide, and knowing the process of the information that carer has to give to the patient while the patients have their activities made.

Conditions

• Performance Anxiety
• Emotional Stress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Program on specific prevention of health	The intervention will be centered in provide effective tools to manage each situation presented while a caregiver cares for patients poststroke with upper limb apraxia. Moreover, the workshops will be focused on the balance between the assistance provided by the caregiver and the improvement and the increase the autonomy and independence of the patients. Finally, we will provide skills and strategies to the caregiver for enhancing the environment adaptation of the patients.
OTHER	Program on general prevention of health	The general health educative program will consist in an educational workshop for caregivers where they are taught the habitual guidelines to caring for patients in situation of dependency.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-07-01
• Primary completion: 2018-09-01
• Completion: 2018-09-01
• First posted: 2014-12-03
• Last updated: 2018-10-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain