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Efficacy of a telephone outcall program to reduce caregiver burden among caregivers of cancer patients [PROTECT]: a randomised controlled trial
BACKGROUND: Informal caregivers provide extended support to people with cancer but they receive little support from the health care system to assist them in their caring role. The aim of this single-blind, multi-centre, randomised controlled trial was to test the efficacy of a telephone outcall prog...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5759190/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29310613 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-017-3961-6 |
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author | Heckel, Leila Fennell, Kate M. Reynolds, John Boltong, Anna Botti, Mari Osborne, Richard H. Mihalopoulos, Cathrine Chirgwin, Jacquie Williams, Melinda Gaskin, Cadeyrn J. Ashley, David M. Livingston, Patricia M. |
author_facet | Heckel, Leila Fennell, Kate M. Reynolds, John Boltong, Anna Botti, Mari Osborne, Richard H. Mihalopoulos, Cathrine Chirgwin, Jacquie Williams, Melinda Gaskin, Cadeyrn J. Ashley, David M. Livingston, Patricia M. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Informal caregivers provide extended support to people with cancer but they receive little support from the health care system to assist them in their caring role. The aim of this single-blind, multi-centre, randomised controlled trial was to test the efficacy of a telephone outcall program to reduce caregiver burden and unmet needs, and improve psychological well-being among cancer caregivers, as well as evaluating the potential impact on patient outcomes. METHODS: Cancer patient/caregiver dyads (N = 216) were randomised to a telephone outcall program (n = 108) or attention control group (n = 108). The primary outcome was self-reported caregiver burden. Secondary endpoints included depressive symptoms, unmet needs, self-esteem, self-empowerment, and health literacy. Data were collected at baseline and at both 1 and 6 months post-intervention. An intention to treat analysis was performed. RESULTS: The intervention had no effect on the primary outcome (caregiver burden), but reduced the number of caregiver unmet needs (intervention group baseline, mean = 2.66, 95% confidence interval (CI) [1.91–3.54]; intervention group 1 month post intervention, mean = 0.85, 95%CI [0.42–1.44]; control group baseline, mean = 1.30 95%CI [0.80–1.94], control group 1 month post intervention, mean = 1.02 95%CI [0.52–1.69]; p = 0.023). For caregivers at risk for depression, the intervention had a significant effect on caregivers’ confidence in having sufficient information to manage their health (p = 0.040). No effects were found for patients’ depressive symptoms, unmet needs, self-empowerment, and other health literacy domains. CONCLUSIONS: While caregiver burden was not reduced, the outcall program was effective in reducing unmet needs in caregivers. Provision of cancer information and support via a telephone service may represent a feasible approach to reducing unmet needs among cancer caregiver populations. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ACTRN12613000731796; prospectively registered on 02/07/2013. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12885-017-3961-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-57591902018-01-10 Efficacy of a telephone outcall program to reduce caregiver burden among caregivers of cancer patients [PROTECT]: a randomised controlled trial Heckel, Leila Fennell, Kate M. Reynolds, John Boltong, Anna Botti, Mari Osborne, Richard H. Mihalopoulos, Cathrine Chirgwin, Jacquie Williams, Melinda Gaskin, Cadeyrn J. Ashley, David M. Livingston, Patricia M. BMC Cancer Research Article BACKGROUND: Informal caregivers provide extended support to people with cancer but they receive little support from the health care system to assist them in their caring role. The aim of this single-blind, multi-centre, randomised controlled trial was to test the efficacy of a telephone outcall program to reduce caregiver burden and unmet needs, and improve psychological well-being among cancer caregivers, as well as evaluating the potential impact on patient outcomes. METHODS: Cancer patient/caregiver dyads (N = 216) were randomised to a telephone outcall program (n = 108) or attention control group (n = 108). The primary outcome was self-reported caregiver burden. Secondary endpoints included depressive symptoms, unmet needs, self-esteem, self-empowerment, and health literacy. Data were collected at baseline and at both 1 and 6 months post-intervention. An intention to treat analysis was performed. RESULTS: The intervention had no effect on the primary outcome (caregiver burden), but reduced the number of caregiver unmet needs (intervention group baseline, mean = 2.66, 95% confidence interval (CI) [1.91–3.54]; intervention group 1 month post intervention, mean = 0.85, 95%CI [0.42–1.44]; control group baseline, mean = 1.30 95%CI [0.80–1.94], control group 1 month post intervention, mean = 1.02 95%CI [0.52–1.69]; p = 0.023). For caregivers at risk for depression, the intervention had a significant effect on caregivers’ confidence in having sufficient information to manage their health (p = 0.040). No effects were found for patients’ depressive symptoms, unmet needs, self-empowerment, and other health literacy domains. CONCLUSIONS: While caregiver burden was not reduced, the outcall program was effective in reducing unmet needs in caregivers. Provision of cancer information and support via a telephone service may represent a feasible approach to reducing unmet needs among cancer caregiver populations. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ACTRN12613000731796; prospectively registered on 02/07/2013. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12885-017-3961-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2018-01-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5759190/ /pubmed/29310613 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-017-3961-6 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Heckel, Leila Fennell, Kate M. Reynolds, John Boltong, Anna Botti, Mari Osborne, Richard H. Mihalopoulos, Cathrine Chirgwin, Jacquie Williams, Melinda Gaskin, Cadeyrn J. Ashley, David M. Livingston, Patricia M. Efficacy of a telephone outcall program to reduce caregiver burden among caregivers of cancer patients [PROTECT]: a randomised controlled trial |
title | Efficacy of a telephone outcall program to reduce caregiver burden among caregivers of cancer patients [PROTECT]: a randomised controlled trial |
title_full | Efficacy of a telephone outcall program to reduce caregiver burden among caregivers of cancer patients [PROTECT]: a randomised controlled trial |
title_fullStr | Efficacy of a telephone outcall program to reduce caregiver burden among caregivers of cancer patients [PROTECT]: a randomised controlled trial |
title_full_unstemmed | Efficacy of a telephone outcall program to reduce caregiver burden among caregivers of cancer patients [PROTECT]: a randomised controlled trial |
title_short | Efficacy of a telephone outcall program to reduce caregiver burden among caregivers of cancer patients [PROTECT]: a randomised controlled trial |
title_sort | efficacy of a telephone outcall program to reduce caregiver burden among caregivers of cancer patients [protect]: a randomised controlled trial |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5759190/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29310613 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-017-3961-6 |
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