The Quality of Life, Perceived Stress and Coping Ways of Caregivers of Mentally Handicapped Individuals

Summary

Disability is a dynamic, multidimensional and diverse public health problem. Although the primary care burden of the disabled is mostly on mothers, caregivers cannot find little or no support socially and they have a high risk of experiencing physical and psychological health problems. In the studies carried out; Disabled caregivers reported higher and lower quality of life than healthy individuals' relatives with physical ailments such as asthma, arthritis, back pain, care burden, pain, insomnia, fatigue, depression, anxiety, stress. This study was planned to determine the effect of an application based on research, education and progressive relaxation exercises on the quality of life, perceived stress and coping strategies of caregivers of mentally disabled individuals.

HYPOTHESES OF THE RESEARCH H1:Face to face education and PGE exercises applied to mentally disabled individual caregivers have an effect on caregivers' quality of life, perceived stress and ways of coping with stress.

H2:Mobile application applied to mentally disabled caregivers and Education and PGE exercises have an effect on the quality of life of caregivers, their perceived stress and ways of coping with stress.

H3:The Face to face + Mobile Application education and PGE exercises applied to mentally disabled individual caregivers have an effect on the caregivers' quality of life, their perceived stress and ways of coping with stress.

Conditions

• Intellectual Disability

Interventions

OTHER

Pre-post test

Adult Caregiver Quality of Life Questionnaire (AC-QoL) Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) The Stress Coping Styles Questionnaire (SCSQ)

BEHAVIORAL

face-to-face training + PMR exercise

4 weeks Roy adaptation-based face-to-face training + PMR exercises to be taught, 4 weeks exercise counseling

BEHAVIORAL

mobile health education + PMR exercise

To provide awareness and exercise with 8 weeks Roy adaptation model-based training and mobile application access with PMR exercise content

BEHAVIORAL

face-to-face and mobile health education + PMR exercise

4 weeks face-to-face training based on Roy adaptation model + teaching PMR exercises and 4 weeks based training on Roy adaptation model and mobile application access with PMR exercise content

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Sakarya University

  collaborator OTHER

• Kafkas University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Gönül GÖKÇAY · Kafkas University-Ataturk Health Services Vocational School Kars, Turkey, 36500

• Ayşe ÇEVİRME · Sakarya University Health Faculty of Health Science Sakarya, Turkey, 54100

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

TRIPLE

Model

FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

65 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2020-11-25

Primary Completion

2022-01-01

Completion

2022-01-30

Countries

• Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations