Use of motivational techniques to enhance unpaid caregiver engagement in a tailored skills training intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The Helping Invested Families Improve Veterans' Experiences Study (HI-FIVES) evaluated a skills training program to support family caregivers of cognitively or functionally impaired persons. HI-FIVES demonstrated sustained improvements in caregivers' and patients' experiences of VA care. The aim of this distinct, secondary qualitative study was to explore the potential processes related to the individual tailored skills-based telephone training underpinning HI-FIVES intervention effects. We explored topics caregivers selected, characteristics of action items created, patterns of action or inaction, and barriers to action item completion across topics.

Methods

Qualitative data was analysed from 118 dyads randomized into the HI-FIVES intervention which included thre

SUBMITTER: King HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10424086 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature