Video-based coping skills to reduce health risk and improve psychological and physical well-being in Alzheimer's disease family caregivers.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether video-based coping skills (VCS) training with telephone coaching reduces psychosocial and biological markers of distress in primary caregivers of a relative with Alzheimer's disease or related dementia (ADRD).

Methods

A controlled clinical trial was conducted with 116 ADRD caregivers who were assigned, alternately as they qualified for the study, to a Wait List control condition or the VCS training arm in which they viewed two modules/week of a version of the Williams LifeSkills Video adapted for ADRD family care contexts, did the exercises and homework for each module presented in an accompanying Workbook, and received one telephone coaching call per week for 5 weeks on each week's two modules. Questionnaire-assessed depressive symptoms, state

SUBMITTER: Williams VP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3005287 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature