Wisniewski Stephen R, Belle Steven H, Coon David W, Marcus Susan M, Ory Marcia G, Burgio Louis D, Burns Robert, Schulz Richard
Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA.
Psychol Aging. 2003 Sep;18(3):375-84. doi: 10.1037/0882-7974.18.3.375.
The Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer's Cargiver Health (REACH) project was designed to test promising interventions for enhancing family caregiving for persons with dementia. The purpose of this article is to describe the research design, interventions, and outcome measures used in REACH and to characterize the sample recruited for the study. Nine interventions and 2 control conditions were implemented at 6 sites; 1,222 dyads were randomly assigned to an intervention or a control condition. The caregiver sample was 18.6% male with an average age of 62.3 years (56% Caucasian, 24% Black, and 19% Hispanic). Caregivers reported high levels of depressive symptoms and moderate burden. Care recipients were older, with a mean age of 79, and were moderately to severely impaired with mean Mini-Mental State Exam scores of 13/30.
增强阿尔茨海默病照料者健康资源(REACH)项目旨在测试有前景的干预措施,以改善对痴呆症患者的家庭照料。本文旨在描述REACH中使用的研究设计、干预措施和结果指标,并对该研究招募的样本进行特征描述。在6个地点实施了9种干预措施和2种对照条件;1222对被随机分配到一种干预措施或对照条件。照料者样本中男性占18.6%,平均年龄为62.3岁(56%为白人,24%为黑人,19%为西班牙裔)。照料者报告有高水平的抑郁症状和中度负担。受照料者年龄较大,平均年龄为79岁,中度至重度受损,简易精神状态检查表平均得分为13/30。