"Living together with dementia": a psychoeducational group programme for family caregivers

Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of the psychoeducational programme ?Living together with dementia? applied to a group of family caregivers of people with dementia. Design and Methods: A quasi?experimental study with pretest and posttest and a 4?month follow?up. Fifteen family caregivers of pe...

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Main Author: Sousa, Lia (author)
Other Authors: Sequeira, Carlos (author), Ferr?-Grau, Carme (author), Costa, Rita (author), Pimenta, S?rgio (author), Silva, Susana (author), Gra?a, Lu?s Carlos Carvalho (author)
Format: article
Language:por
Published: 2022
Subjects:
Dementia
Family caregivers
Nursing
Training programmes
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11960/2901
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ipvc.pt:20.500.11960/2901
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Summary:Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of the psychoeducational programme ?Living together with dementia? applied to a group of family caregivers of people with dementia. Design and Methods: A quasi?experimental study with pretest and posttest and a 4?month follow?up. Fifteen family caregivers of people with dementia were recruited in a community care unit in northern Portugal. Results: A positive and statistically significant impact on these caregivers' burden was found. Practice Implications: The programme could be an important mechanism to train family caregivers of home?dwelling people with dementia.

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