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Pilot of a Communication Program for Dementia Caregivers Using Improvisational Techniques
Background/Objectives: This paper is a brief report on a novel pilot program called Improv to Improve for family dementia caregivers to build resilience, communication skills, and improve social caregiving situations in order to reduce caregiver burden and low mood. Methods: We conducted a 6-week im...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9484043/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36134037 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23337214221123733 |
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author | Howell, Britteny M. Piech, Arianna Wolfe, Cohen |
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description | Background/Objectives: This paper is a brief report on a novel pilot program called Improv to Improve for family dementia caregivers to build resilience, communication skills, and improve social caregiving situations in order to reduce caregiver burden and low mood. Methods: We conducted a 6-week improv training for family caregivers including pre- and post-program evaluation of caregiver mood utilizing the Beck Depression Inventory and the Zarit Burden Interview and care-recipient symptoms with the Neuropsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire. Results: Six family caregivers participated in the pilot project and reported small improvements (d = 0.28) in caregiver’s mood and significant improvements in care-recipient’s symptom severity and distress (d = 0.50). Participants all reported agreeing or strongly agreeing with program satisfaction questions and found the training to be useful. Conclusions: These findings have implications for broader implementation of improvisational techniques for educating family dementia caregivers. |
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spelling | pubmed-94840432022-09-20 Pilot of a Communication Program for Dementia Caregivers Using Improvisational Techniques Howell, Britteny M. Piech, Arianna Wolfe, Cohen Gerontol Geriatr Med Brief Report Background/Objectives: This paper is a brief report on a novel pilot program called Improv to Improve for family dementia caregivers to build resilience, communication skills, and improve social caregiving situations in order to reduce caregiver burden and low mood. Methods: We conducted a 6-week improv training for family caregivers including pre- and post-program evaluation of caregiver mood utilizing the Beck Depression Inventory and the Zarit Burden Interview and care-recipient symptoms with the Neuropsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire. Results: Six family caregivers participated in the pilot project and reported small improvements (d = 0.28) in caregiver’s mood and significant improvements in care-recipient’s symptom severity and distress (d = 0.50). Participants all reported agreeing or strongly agreeing with program satisfaction questions and found the training to be useful. Conclusions: These findings have implications for broader implementation of improvisational techniques for educating family dementia caregivers. SAGE Publications 2022-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9484043/ /pubmed/36134037 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23337214221123733 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Brief Report Howell, Britteny M. Piech, Arianna Wolfe, Cohen Pilot of a Communication Program for Dementia Caregivers Using Improvisational Techniques |
title | Pilot of a Communication Program for Dementia Caregivers Using
Improvisational Techniques |
title_full | Pilot of a Communication Program for Dementia Caregivers Using
Improvisational Techniques |
title_fullStr | Pilot of a Communication Program for Dementia Caregivers Using
Improvisational Techniques |
title_full_unstemmed | Pilot of a Communication Program for Dementia Caregivers Using
Improvisational Techniques |
title_short | Pilot of a Communication Program for Dementia Caregivers Using
Improvisational Techniques |
title_sort | pilot of a communication program for dementia caregivers using
improvisational techniques |
topic | Brief Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9484043/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36134037 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23337214221123733 |
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