NCT04076670

A Psychological Intervention for Family Caregivers of Palliative Care Patients

Benefits of a Psychological Intervention in Family Caregivers of Palliative Care Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 154 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Valencia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This work aims to study the benefits a psychological intervention in family caregivers of palliative care patients can have for reducing anxiety, depression and overburden. A parallel randomized controlled trial of two groups was performed. Information was collected on 154 family caregivers of patients at the end of life during the moments before and after the intervention.

Conditions

• Palliative Care

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Psychological intervention for family caregivers of patients at the end of life	The intervention protocol is a structured programme within the framework of counselling, that aims to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms, as well as symptoms of burden (overburden).

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-05-31
• Primary completion: 2019-05-31
• Completion: 2019-07-31
• First posted: 2019-09-03
• Last updated: 2019-09-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain