CARGIVER TRAINING IN SOUTH INDIA

描述 该申请提出了一个美国和印度团队之间的三年项目， 开发并测试旨在缓解压力的教育干预措施 以及在家中照顾痴呆症亲属的人所承受的负担。的 项目扩展了母基金（R 01 NR 04517）的工作，该基金正在测试 两个培训方案在解决压力问题方面的有效性， 痴呆症家庭照顾者的负担。该项目在三个 零件.在第一部分中，将使用定性方法来识别和 澄清城市和城市居民对痴呆症护理的意义和关切， 印度班加罗尔的印度农村家庭照顾者。这一阶段的成果将 用于开发原型教育干预措施-概念上基于 美国队模式。原型干预将反复尝试， 在许多条件下形成性地评估（例如，作为一个群体， 个人计划;在社区环境或家庭中;由专家授课 与多用途卫生工作者相比）。根据形成性调查的结果， 在第二阶段的评估，该计划的最终版本将是 发展到第三阶段。这个版本将包括所有的材料 需要进行该计划和教师发展计划， 根据需要，为那些将提供该计划的人提供。第三 阶段，该计划将在该计划的小型随机试验中进行测试， 可能在印度的科钦，还有班加罗尔。作为方法部分， 表示，该项目将包括美国合作伙伴参与的每一个 开发和测试阶段主要通过电子对话进行。的 该项目将受益于外国调查员与 10/66研究小组正在印度开展的与痴呆症有关的工作， 痴呆症护理。

DESCRIPTION This application proposes a three-year project between a US and Indian team to develop and test an educational intervention aimed at ameliorating the stress and burden experienced by persons caring at home for demented relatives. The project extends the work of a parent grant (R0l NR 04517) which is testing the effectiveness of two training programs in addressing issues of stress and burden among dementia family caregivers. The proposed project is in three parts. In the first part, qualitative methods will be used to identify and clarify the meaning of and concerns about dementia care giving among urban and rural Indian family caregivers in Bangalore, India. Results of this phase will be used to develop a prototype educational intervention- conceptually based in the US team model. The prototype intervention will be iteratively tried and formatively evaluated under a number of conditions (e.g., as a group versus individual program; in a community setting or in homes; taught by experts versus Multi Purpose Health Workers). Based on the findings of the formative evaluation in the second phase, a final version of the program will be developed for the third phase. This version will include all the materials needed to conduct the program and a program of faculty development to be provided, as needed, for those who will deliver the program. In the third phase, the program will be tested in a small randomized trial of the program, possibly in Cochin, India, as well as Bangalore. As the methods section indicates, the project will include involvement by the US partners in every stage of development and testing largely through electronic dialogue. The project will benefit from the foreign investigator's collaboration with the 10/66 Research Group's on-going work in India on issues related to dementia and dementia care giving.