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The Family Series Workshop

Year: 2015
Type: article
Study design: Clinical Trial
Abstract: This study describes an evaluation of a community-based psychoeducational intervention, called The Family Series Workshop, for caregivers of community-dwelling persons with Alzheimer's disease or related dementias (ADRD). In a one-group pretest-posttest design, participants (n = 35) attended six weekly sessions. Caregiver stress, coping, and caregiving competence were evaluated along with demographic characteristics of participants. There was a significant improvement found for caregiving competence, and a marginally significant increase in coping with humor. Using regression analysis we also found that coping with humor, along with stress, were significant predictors of caregiving competence. These findings indicate that it is possible to increase caregiving competence utilizing a "grassroots" approach and that it is feasible to hold educational, group discussions on a plethora of challenging caregiving topics.
DOI: 10.1177/1533317514568003
Authors: Sarah M. Llanque, Maithe Enriquez, An-Lin Cheng, Leilani Doty, Marco A. Brotto, Patricia J. Kelly, Michelle Niedens, Michael S. Caserta, Lynette M. Savage
Institutions: University of Utah, University of Missouri, University of Missouri–Kansas City, University of Florida Health, University of Florida, Alzheimer's Association, University of Providence
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2094739375
FWCI: 1.623
Cites: 58
Cited by: 23
Related to: 10