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A Support Program for Carers of Persons With Dementia

NCT01287767 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 230

Last updated 2015-10-07

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Dementia is one of the most common and devastating diseases in the elderly, it leads to helplessness, no cure exists and therefore care is necessary to provide. The care is associated with a great burden for the family carers and expensive for the society when residential care is required. The purpose of this study is to improve knowledge on how to provide better care for both the patients and their family carers, the investigators want to carry out a controlled trial using a rather cheap form of intervention, a multidimensional support program - an 18 months randomized controlled intervention study.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

A multidimensional support program

Counseling, education and problem-solving in support group, ad hoc counseling

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Research Council of Norway

    collaborator OTHER

  • Kavli Research Center for Ageing and Dementia

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Norwegian Centre for Ageing and Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Knut Engedal, M.D.PhD · Norwegian Centre for Ageing and Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-10-31
Primary Completion
2013-01-31
Completion
2015-01-31

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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