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

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess whether a manual based coping strategy compared with treatment as usual reduces depression and anxiety symptoms in carers of family members with dementia.

Design

Randomised, parallel group, superiority trial.

Setting

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

Participants

260 carers of family members with dementia.

Intervention

A manual based coping intervention comprising eight sessions and delivered by supervised psychology graduates to carers of family members with dementia. The programme consisted of psychoeducation about dementia, carers' stress, and where to get emotional support; understanding behaviours of the family member being cared for, and behavioural m

SUBMITTER: Livingston G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3808082 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature