Trial reportFrontiers in public health2024
The impact of empowerment theory-based health education on Alzheimer's disease informal caregivers: a randomized controlled trial.
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- Can the Use of Telehealth Guidance Services Reduce Depressive Symptoms Among Family Caregivers of Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment? A Moderated-Mediation Model.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Factors associated with family caregiver stress related to behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia: A stress process model-based path analysis.Journal of Korean gerontological nursing · 2026Article
- Healthcare Professionals' Perceptions of the Palliative Care Needs of Patients with Severe Brain Injury and Their Caregivers: A Qualitative Study.Brain sciences · 2026Article
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- Mapping caregivers' distress: a network analysis of burden, meaning in life, and mental health in families facing suicidal behavior.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2025Article
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- Supporting informal caregivers of dementia patients in China: action needed.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Effects of an interdisciplinary programme on psychoemotional factors in informal caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Family carers' knowledge and practices in dementia care for hospitalized older adults: a multi-center cross-sectional study in Thailand.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
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Abstract
Background: There is a lack of evidence regarding the effectiveness of empowerment healthy education for caregivers of Alzheimer's patients. Objective: To explore the effectiveness of the intervention of health education guided by empowerment theory on dementia knowledge, caregiving readiness, positive caregiving emotions, anxiety, and depression in informal Alzheimer's disease caregivers. Design: A single-blinded, randomized controlled trial. Setting: A teaching hospital in Tianjin, China. Participants: Eighty caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients. Methods: Participants were recruited from the hospital and randomly assigned to either experimental or control group. The experimental group underwent a 12-weeks, one-to-one intervention of six session lasting 45-60 min each. The control group received conventional health education. Outcome measures included dementia knowledge, caregiver readiness (primary outcomes), positive caregiving emotions, anxiety, and depression (secondary outcomes). Results: After 12 weeks, the intervention group exhibited significantly higher levels of dementia knowledge, caregiver readiness, and positive caregiving emotions compared with the control group. Furthermore, levels of hospitalization-related anxiety and depression were lower in the intervention group. All study results of this study showed statistically significant differences ( Discussion: Empowerment theory-based health education appears to be an effective intervention for improving caregiver and readiness to care for caregivers of Alzheimer's disease individuals. The intervention may help reduce caregivers' anxiety and depression levels.
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