TY - JOUR
T1 - Strengths-building through life purpose, self-care goal setting and social support
T2 - Study protocol for Caregiver Support
AU - Abshire Saylor, Martha
AU - Pavlovic, Noelle V.
AU - DeGroot, Lyndsay
AU - Jajodia, Anushka
AU - Hladek, Melissa de Cardi
AU - Perrin, Nancy
AU - Wolff, Jennifer
AU - Davidson, Patricia M.
AU - Szanton, Sarah
N1 - Funding Information:
This study is funded by the Hopkins Center to Promote resilience in persons and families living with multiple chronic conditions (the PROMOTE Center). PI: Szanton, Sarah L, Pilot PI: Abshire Saylor. National Institute of Nursing Research ( 5P30NR01809303 ).
Funding Information:
This study is funded by the Hopkins Center to Promote resilience in persons and families living with multiple chronic conditions (the PROMOTE Center). PI: Szanton, Sarah L, Pilot PI: Abshire Saylor. National Institute of Nursing Research (5P30NR01809303).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors
PY - 2022/8
Y1 - 2022/8
N2 - 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 and IL-10, pre- and post-intervention. Methods: This is a single-blind, two group, waitlist control trial. Eligible caregivers are 1) ≥ 18 years, 2) English speaking, 3) live with the person with heart failure or visit them at least 3 days per week to provide care, 4) provide support for at least 1 instrumental activity of daily living (IADL), 5) live within a 1 h driving radius of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and 6) the care-recipient has been hospitalized within the last 6 months. Trial participants are randomized into the immediate intervention (n = 24) or waitlist control group (n = 24). Data collection is at baseline, 16 weeks, and 32 weeks. Conclusion: The Caregiver Support program has the potential to increase quality of life and decrease fatigue and caregiver burden for caregivers of people with heart failure and multiple co-morbidities.
AB - 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 and IL-10, pre- and post-intervention. Methods: This is a single-blind, two group, waitlist control trial. Eligible caregivers are 1) ≥ 18 years, 2) English speaking, 3) live with the person with heart failure or visit them at least 3 days per week to provide care, 4) provide support for at least 1 instrumental activity of daily living (IADL), 5) live within a 1 h driving radius of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and 6) the care-recipient has been hospitalized within the last 6 months. Trial participants are randomized into the immediate intervention (n = 24) or waitlist control group (n = 24). Data collection is at baseline, 16 weeks, and 32 weeks. Conclusion: The Caregiver Support program has the potential to increase quality of life and decrease fatigue and caregiver burden for caregivers of people with heart failure and multiple co-morbidities.
KW - Burden
KW - Caregiver
KW - Heart failure
KW - Intervention
KW - Social support
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U2 - 10.1016/j.conctc.2022.100917
DO - 10.1016/j.conctc.2022.100917
M3 - Article
C2 - 35602009
AN - SCOPUS:85130204120
SN - 2451-8654
VL - 28
JO - Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications
JF - Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications
M1 - 100917
ER -