title: The family series workshop: a community-based psychoeducational intervention.
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.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA sarah.llanque@nurs.utah.edu.
authors.forename: Sarah M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Llanque
authors.affiliation: Sinclair School of Nursing, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
authors.forename: Maithe
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Enriquez
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Health Studies, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA.
authors.forename: An-Lin
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
authors.forename: Leilani
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Doty
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Health Studies, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA.
authors.forename: Marco A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Brotto
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Health Studies, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA.
authors.forename: Patricia J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Kelly
authors.affiliation: Alzheimer's Association, Heart of America Chapter, Prairie Village, KS, USA.
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Niedens
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
authors.forename: Michael S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Caserta
authors.affiliation: Nursing Program, University of Great Falls, Great Falls, MT, USA.
authors.forename: Lynette M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Savage
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000451:nursing*; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D003704:Dementia / Q000451:nursing*; D004493:Education / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: Alzheimer’s disease; caregiving; dementia; interventions; one-group pretest-posttest design; psychoeducation