A qualitative exploration of changes and mechanisms of changes in a psychoeducational intervention for family dementia caregivers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

'Learning to feel better… and help better' is a psychoeducational intervention that aims to empower family caregivers of people with dementia by helping them cope better with the daily stress of dementia caregiving. The intervention has been adapted to a Swiss context and evaluated with a mixed-method design, yielding promising results in caregivers, such as a reduced subjective burden and improved self-efficacy. Qualitative findings have provided insight into potentially relevant intermediate changes that must be further explored to better understand how the intervention precipitates the achieved changes. We aim to qualitatively explore such changes, related mechanisms and key intervention components in the context of this intervention.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Kipfer S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11437664 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature