Web-Based Intervention for Family Carers of Persons with Dementia and Multiple Chronic Conditions (My Tools 4 Care): Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

My Tools 4 Care (MT4C) is a Web-based intervention that was developed based on the transitions theory. It is an interactive, self-administered, and portable toolkit containing six main sections intended to support carers of community-living persons with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia and multiple chronic conditions through their transition experiences.

Objective

The objective of our study was to evaluate the effectiveness of MT4C with respect to increasing hope, self-efficacy, and health-related quality of life in carers of community-living older persons with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia and multiple chronic conditions.

Methods

A multisite, pragmatic, mixed methods, longitudinal, repeated-measures, randomized controlled trial was condu

SUBMITTER: Duggleby W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6045794 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature