@article{d7180c5438e642f2983b9207582b3c7f,
title = "Caregiver self-efficacy improves following complex care training: Results from the Learning Skills Together pilot study",
abstract = "Family caregivers to persons living with dementia increasingly provide complex care tasks, though most (53%) do so without any training. “Complex care” includes medical/nursing tasks, as well as personal care tasks that require disease knowledge. Of the 67% of dementia caregivers who provide complex care, nearly half worry about making a mistake. To help caregivers feel more confident when providing complex care tasks, we developed and conducted a pilot study of the 4-week Learning Skills Together psychoeducation program (LST; N=35). Participants in LST reported high satisfaction with the program and found the information shared about complex care was easy to understand. Pre- and post-test data demonstrated improvements in mean caregiver self-efficacy at both 4-weeks and 8-weeks post-intervention (mean difference (MD)=1.0, SD= 1.6, p-value=0.004 and MD= 1.0, SD=2.2, p-value=0.038, respectively). Results demonstrate the potential for a brief psychoeducational program to prepare caregivers to provide complex care to persons living with dementia.",
keywords = "Dementia, Family caregiving, Psychoeducation, Self-efficacy",
author = "Kylie Meyer and Ashlie Glassner and Rocio Norman and Debbie James and Rebekah Sculley and Liset LealVasquez and Kenneth Hepburn and Jia Liu and Carole White",
note = "Funding Information: The project described was supported by the National Institutes on Aging and National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, through Grants TL1 TR002647, KL2 KL2 TR002646, and 5P30AG064200-02 (through the Emory University Center on Dementia Caregiving Mastery). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH. Funding Information: The authors acknowledge the support of Learning Skills Together presenters and facilitators, including Jennifer Brackett, MSG and Betsey Omeis-Nielson, RN, BSN. We are also grateful for the input shared by the Caring for the Caregiver Advisory Council. We are also grateful to Carolyn Clevenger, RN, DNP for her support and guidance. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 Elsevier Inc.",
year = "2022",
month = may,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.gerinurse.2022.03.013",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "45",
pages = "147--152",
journal = "Geriatric Nursing",
issn = "0197-4572",
publisher = "Mosby Inc.",
}