Self-care capacity of informal caregivers of older adults with dementia: quasi-experimental study
Daniela Luzia Zagoto Agulho, Annelita Almeida Oliveira Reiners, Rosemeiry Capriata de Souza Azevedo, Adriana Delmondes de Oliveira, Carla Rafaela Teixeira Cunha, Amanda Cristina de Souza Andrade, Joana Darc Chaves Cardoso, Tiago Reboulas Mazza, Daniela Luzia Zagoto Agulho
TL;DR
A video-based educational program improved the self-care abilities of caregivers for older adults with dementia.
Contribution
A self-efficacy-based video intervention was shown to effectively increase caregivers' self-care capacity.
Findings
The educational intervention significantly increased self-care capacity (p=0.029).
Video-based interventions are effective in nursing practices for caregiver support.
Self-efficacy can be leveraged to improve caregiver self-care.
Abstract
to assess the effectiveness of a self-efficacy-based educational intervention to increase the self-care capacity of informal caregivers of older adults with dementia. quasi-experimental study, with pre- and post-intervention assessment, without control group. Participants included 17 informal caregivers of older adults with dementia. The intervention had three stages: Pre-intervention with data collection to characterize the caregivers, measurement of overload, self-care capacity, and perceived self-efficacy; Intervention using four videos produced by the researcher based on the four self-efficacy belief sources of Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory; Post-intervention with new measurement of self-care capacity. We performed descriptive analyses, normality test and non-parametric Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test and paired t-test, considering a significance level of 0.05. The research was approved…
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Taxonomy
TopicsFamily Caregiving in Mental Illness · Family and Disability Support Research · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving