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A Two-Tier Care Management Program to Empower Stroke Caregivers in Hong Kong

NCT03034330 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 264

Last updated 2022-03-16

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Summary

This study intends to develop a family-based care management intervention with primary aims to provide time-limited support for family caregivers affected by stroke and to empower caregivers through enhancing the family adaptation and functioning and increasing their capacity of stroke care. The objectives include:

1. To examine the effectiveness of the proposed family-based intervention to improve family, caregiver, and service outcome.
2. To examine the cost-effectiveness of the proposed family intervention.

It is hypothesized that comparing to the control group, the experimental group participants will have more and significant outcome.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Two-Tier Stroke Family Empowerment

The family-based care management intervention will be implemented in two tiers. The first tier is the Family Care Management that a care manager is responsible for empowering family caregivers to support their stroke survivors through reorganizing family roles, enhancing family functioning, and maximizing their family and community resources. The second tier is led by trained volunteers who are responsible for increasing the capacity of caregivers for the mastery of stroke care by providing psychoeducation, skill-training, and social support. Each caregiver participant will be assigned a care manager and a volunteer. All care managers who are social workers from the participating centres have undergone 4-day training to improve their knowledge of stroke and skills required for the intervention. Similarly, volunteers have undergone 6.5-day training to equip them with the knowledge and skills to conduct the intervention.

OTHER

Volunteer Support Psychoeducation

The active control group will receive a standard, non-family-based psychoeducation intervention provided by the trained volunteers under the supervision of care managers. It will provide 4 in-home visits and 2 telephone follow-up interviews about psychoeducation for caregivers of stroke survivors.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The University of Hong Kong

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lou Vivian, Vivian · Sau Po Center on Ageing, HKU

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-01-31
Primary Completion
2020-03-31
Completion
2020-03-31

Countries

  • Hong Kong

Study Locations

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