Family Caregiver Support Interventions' Effectiveness Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Soc Work Public Health. 2023 Sep 23:1-14. doi: 10.1080/19371918.2023.2259896. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe authors aimed to assess the impact of a family caregiver support intervention on caregiver burden and hospital readmission before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. By adopting a quasi-experimental design with no randomization, caregivers (n = 65) received a 90-day home visitation caregiver support intervention before the COVID-19 pandemic and caregivers (n = 41) received a 90-day phone-only visitation caregiver support intervention during the COVID-19 pandemic. Caregiver burden was collected in a survey, and hospital readmission of the care recipient was collected by hospital data. The results of a repeated-measures ANOVA demonstrated that participants of a family caregiver support intervention during the COVID-19 pandemic improved their caregiver burden statistically significantly more than those who received the intervention before the pandemic. There were no significant differences in hospital readmissions before or during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study demonstrates the efficacy of family caregiver support interventions over the phone during a pandemic.PMID:37740894 | DOI:10.1080/19371918.2023.2259896
Source: Social Work in Public Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Source Type: research