Family caregivers' perceptions and experiences of participating in the learning skills together intervention to build self-efficacy for providing complex care.

ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to describe how an intervention to teach family caregivers of persons living with dementia to provide complex care tasks contributes to their self-efficacy. This qualitative study was embedded in a pilot study evaluating the intervention. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 caregivers who had completed the intervention. Content analysis was used to analyze the data. Themes identified from the interviews were: "helpfulness of the content", "if they can do it, so can I", and "applying what I have learned". Caregivers described the helpfulness of learning from expert healthcare professionals in a supportive environment. They valued the group setting, including interacting with and learning from their peers. Caregivers demonstrated mastery of the con

SUBMITTER: White CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10019378 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature