Programa de educación para la salud a los cuidadores principales de personas con Alzheimer: proyecto de investigación
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At the moment, dementia affects about 50 million people worldwide, and
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, accounting for
between 60% and 70% of cases. This disease not only affects people with AD,
but also their main caregivers, thus developing an overload that triggers
physical and psychological problems. For this reason, there are various
education programs where skills and strategies are worked on in order to help
cope with and minimize this overload.
Objectives:
General objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of a health education program
for the main caregivers of people with Alzheimer's.
Specific objectives: 1) To study the socio-demographic and clinical
characteristics of Alzheimer's patients participating in the study. 2) To study the
socio-demographic characteristics of the participating caregivers of Alzheimer's
patients. 3) To describe the knowledge about Alzheimer's disease and the care
of the caregivers before and after the application of the program. 4) To identify
the level of overload of the main caregiver before and after the program. 5) To
study the quality of life perceived by Alzheimer's caregivers before and after the
program.
Methodology
It is an almost experimental design that will be carried out between the months
of April and May 2022. The study population is the main caregivers of people
with Alzheimer's who attend the CAP in Can Gibert del Pla, where the sample
will be chosen from a non-probabilistic convenience sampling. Socio-
demographic variables of the affected person and the caregiver, clinical
variables related to the disease, and in the caregiver’s knowledge about this
disease, caregiver burden using the Zarit scale and quality of life using Quality
of Life in Alzheimer's disease (QOL-AD) will be studied to patients and
caregivers. The caregiver program consists of teaching patient care strategies
and providing information on how to bear the burden of the caregiver. The study
will respect the ethical principles of research in people. The data will be
statistically analyzed with the SPSS 25.0 program. The results of the study will
allow us to know the effectiveness of the program in terms of knowledge and
skills, including whether the burden of the main caregiver decreases, and
consequently, if it helps to improve the quality of life of the person with AD