title: The Effect of a Personalized Dementia Care Intervention for Caregivers From Australian Minority Groups.
abstract: Most caregiver interventions in a multicultural society are designed to target caregivers from the mainstream culture and exclude those who are unable to speak English. This study addressed the gap by testing the hypothesis that personalized caregiver support provided by a team led by a care coordinator of the person with dementia would improve competence for caregivers from minority groups in managing dementia. A randomised controlled trial was utilised to test the hypothesis. Sixty-one family caregivers from 10 minority groups completed the trial. Outcome variables were measured prior to the intervention, at 6 and 12 months after the commencement of trial. A linear mixed effect model was used to estimate the effectiveness of the intervention. The intervention group showed a significant increase in the caregivers' sense of competence and mental components of quality of life. There were no significant differences in the caregivers' physical components of quality of life.
authors: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia lily.xiao@flinders.edu.au.
authors: Lily Dongxia
authors: LD
authors: Xiao
authors: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
authors: Anita
authors: A
authors: De Bellis
authors: Alzheimer's Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
authors: Helena
authors: H
authors: Kyriazopoulos
authors: School of Psychiatry, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia.
authors: Brian
authors: B
authors: Draper
authors: Flinders Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
authors: Shahid
authors: S
authors: Ullah
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001315:Australia; D017028:Caregivers / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology*; D003704:Dementia / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000451:nursing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008913:Minority Groups; D011788:Quality of Life; D012944:Social Support; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: dementia; family caregivers; minority groups; randomized controlled trial