Cost effectiveness of a manual based coping strategy programme in promoting the mental health of family carers of people with dementia (the START (STrAtegies for RelaTives) study): a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess whether the START (STrAtegies for RelatTives) intervention added to treatment as usual is cost effective compared with usual treatment alone.

Design

Cost effectiveness analysis nested within a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

Setting

Three mental health and one neurological outpatient dementia service in London and Essex, UK.

Participants

Family carers of people with dementia.

Intervention

Eight session, manual based, coping intervention delivered by supervised psychology graduates to family carers of people with dementia added to usual treatment, compared with usual treatment alone.

Primary outcome measures

Costs measured from a health and social care perspective were analysed alongside the Hospital Anxiety and Depressio

SUBMITTER: Knapp M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3808080 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature