NCT06522516

A Nurse-led Family-oriented Resilience Program for Caregivers of Community-dwelling Dependent Older Adults

A Nurse-led Family-oriented Resilience Program for Caregivers of Community-dwelling Dependent Older Adults: a Three-arm Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 105 (actual)
• Sponsor: Central South University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a 3-arm controlled trial. The participants are caregivers of the community-dwelling dependent older adults. There will be around 105 participants to be recruited and randomly allocated into 3 groups. Caregiving training group will receive a evidence-based caregiving training delivered via home visit of community nurse. Caregiving training plus family resilience group will additionally receive a structured family resilience intervetion. Control group will receive usual community health care service by nurses. The primary outcomes are caregiving ability, family resilience and psychological distress, and the secondary outcomes are caregiving burden, resilience, coping, social support, and quality of life the caregivers and the older adults. The measurement will be conducted four times at baseline, after, 1-month and 3-month after intervention.

Conditions

• Caregiver Burden

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Evidence-based caregiving training	This is designed based on evidence of daily living activity ability caregiving, including① Dietary training: guiding caregivers to choose appropriate tableware according to the functional status of disabled elderly people, and training them in eating posture such as changing positions and using tableware; ② Dressing training: guide caregivers to train disabled elderly people on how to put on and take off clothes, shoes, socks, etc.; ③ Personal hygiene training: including washing face, hands, brushing teeth, etc.; ④ Excretion function training: including urination function training and defecation function training; ⑤ Mobile training: including support walking training, cane walking training, etc.; ⑥ Wheelchair training: Guide caregivers to use wheelchairs according to the specific situation of disabled elderly people.
BEHAVIORAL	family resilience intervention	The intervention will be developed based on the Maccubbin Family Resilience Theory, and Delphi methods. The content will contain 8 topics and be incorporated into caregiving training manual.
BEHAVIORAL	usual service	This means the usual service provided by the local community health center from nurses during bi-weekly home visit.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-12-01
• Primary completion: 2024-06-30
• Completion: 2024-12-30
• First posted: 2024-07-26
• Last updated: 2025-02-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China