Strengths-building through life purpose, self-care goal setting and social support: Study protocol for Caregiver Support.

ABSTRACT:

Background

For caregivers of people with heart failure, addressing a range of care recipient needs at home can potentially be burdensome, but caregivers may also gain meaning from caregiving. The Caregiver Support Program, a multicomponent strengths-based intervention, is designed to improve outcomes of heart failure caregivers.

Objectives

1) Test the feasibility and gauge an initial effect size of the Caregiver Support Program to improve caregiver quality of life (primary outcome), and fatigue and burden (secondary outcomes) from baseline to 16 weeks, 2) test whether fatigue and caregiver burden are associated with objective measures of resilience (sweat inflammatory cytokines (Il-6 and IL-10) and self-reported resilience, 3) evaluate changes in heart rate variability, IL-6

SUBMITTER: Abshire Saylor M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9118505 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature