A home-based exercise intervention for caregivers of persons with dementia: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Family members, who provide the majority of care for persons with dementia, are especially vulnerable to developing depression. Interventions targeting their depressive symptoms have been proposed but their efficacies vary considerably. It has been suggested that interventions carried out in the home setting and involving both caregivers and care recipients are more efficacious. This study aims to compare the efficacy of a home-based structured exercise programme involving both persons with dementia and their caregivers with nonexercise social contact control in treating depression among caregivers.

Methods/design

This is a parallel-group, assessor-blind, randomised controlled trial. A total of 136 caregiver-care-recipient dyads (i.e. 272 participants in total) wi

SUBMITTER: Chan WC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5031263 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature