Smartphone app-based intervention for reducing stress, depression, and anxiety in caregivers of people with dementia in Vietnam: Study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aims to: (1) identify the information required by family caregivers of people with dementia to be targeted within our dementia family caregiver intervention and (2) test the feasibility of the intervention and methodology to underpin a fully powered randomized controlled trial.

Methods

The study setting will be the Department of Geriatrics at Gia Dinh People's Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. Inclusion criteria will be the family caregivers of people with dementia living in the community, who attend the Department and use smartphones. In phase 1, we will identify the intervention content with family caregivers of people with dementia through 20 in-depth interviews to determine what information and skills they need. In phase 2, a pilot randomized control tr

SUBMITTER: Than TN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10014987 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature