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creators_name: Charlesworth, G
creators_name: Shepstone, L
creators_name: Wilson, E
creators_name: Reynolds, S
creators_name: Mugford, M
creators_name: Price, D
creators_name: Harvey, I
creators_name: Poland, F
title: Befriending carers of people with dementia: randomised controlled trial
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B02
divisions: C07
divisions: D05
divisions: F66
keywords: SOCIAL SUPPORT, CAREGIVERS, INTERVENTION, DEPRESSION, SCALE
note: © BMJ Publishing Group Ltd 2013 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non commercial and is otherwise in compliance with the license.
abstract: Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of a voluntary sector based befriending scheme in improving psychological wellbeing and quality of life for family carers of people with dementia.Design Single blind randomised controlled trial.Setting Community settings in East Anglia and London.Participants 236 family carers of people with primary progressive dementia.Intervention Contact with a befriender facilitator and offer of match with a trained lay volunteer befriender compared with no befriender facilitator contact; all participants continued to receive "usual care."Main outcome measures Carers' mood (hospital anxiety and depression scale-depression) and health related quality of life (EuroQoL) at 15 months post-randomisation.Results The intention to treat analysis showed no benefit for the intervention "access to a befriender facilitator" on the primary outcome measure or on any of the secondary outcome measures.Conclusions In common with many carers' services, befriending schemes are not taken up by all carers, and providing access to a befriending scheme is not effective in improving wellbeing.
date: 2008-06-07
publisher: B M J PUBLISHING GROUP
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39549.548831.AE
oa_status: green
language: eng
primo: open
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doi: 10.1136/bmj.39549.548831.AE
language_elements: EN
lyricists_name: Charlesworth, Georgina
lyricists_id: GCHAR80
full_text_status: public
publication: BMJ
volume: 336
number: 7656
article_number: 1295
issn: 0959-8146
citation:        Charlesworth, G;    Shepstone, L;    Wilson, E;    Reynolds, S;    Mugford, M;    Price, D;    Harvey, I;           Charlesworth, G;  Shepstone, L;  Wilson, E;  Reynolds, S;  Mugford, M;  Price, D;  Harvey, I;  Poland, F;   - view fewer <#>    (2008)    Befriending carers of people with dementia: randomised controlled trial.                   BMJ , 336  (7656)    , Article 1295.  10.1136/bmj.39549.548831.AE <https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39549.548831.AE>.       Green open access   
 
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