Participants were family caregivers who registered for the program online at the http://www.aidant.ca website designed by a team of nursing science researchers of the Research Centre of the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal (IUGM), in collaboration with the IUGM Centre of Expertise on Elder and Caregiver Health. Intended for a French-speaking general public, the website has been online since the fall of 2007 offering information and resources to caregivers of seniors with impaired autonomy. For the purpose of the project, a window was added to the website with an invitation to caregivers to sign up for the stress management training program.
Participants were selected according to the following inclusion criteria:
a) caregiver (spouse or offspring) self-defined as the one principally responsible (primary caregiver) for a family member 65 years of age or over with impaired functional or cognitive autonomy;
b) at risk for health problems as evaluated using the five criteria proposed by Nolan, Grant, Caldock, and Keady (1994), i.e.: the complexity of the care provided, caregiver perception of personal state of health, caregiver perceived stress, and caregiver perception of support received from family, friends and from formal services (see measures);
c) French-speaking;
d) no support group or psychotherapy while taking part in program; and e) able to use the basic functions of a home computer (word processing, high-speed internet and email).
To determine caregiver eligibility, the study coordinator emailed caregivers who registered for the program to ask them to complete two questionnaires on a secure web page, namely, the questionnaire on health risks and a sociodemographic questionnaire to describe the characteristics of potential participants.
The first 26 caregivers who registered for the program and who met the inclusion criteria made up the study’s sample. Nine caregivers (35%) dropped out between pre- and post-test. Most of these were caregivers living with a cognitively impaired elderly relative. The main reasons for withdrawing were lack of time (probably due to the fact that persons with a cognitive impairment require continuous supervision), deteriorating health of relative, and inability to use computer functions essential to program participation.
The caregivers who participated at both times of the study were mostly women in their early 60s with an average of 15 years of schooling (Table 2). Mean age and mean number of years of schooling of the dropouts were similar. In terms of kinship tie, 15 of the 26 caregivers were the care recipient’s daughter. One third of the caregivers lived with their elderly relative and three looked after a relative placed in a long-term care residential facility for more than three months. Most of the caregivers had been using the internet for more than three years. The cared-for relatives were mainly women with a mean age of 84 years; 17 were cognitively impaired (Table 2)
Table 2
Participants were family caregivers who registered for the program online at the http://www.aidant.ca website designed by a team of nursing science researchers of the Research Centre of the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal (IUGM), in collaboration with the IUGM Centre of Expertise on Elder and Caregiver Health. Intended for a French-speaking general public, the website has been online since the fall of 2007 offering information and resources to caregivers of seniors with impaired autonomy. For the purpose of the project, a window was added to the website with an invitation to caregivers to sign up for the stress management training program.Participants were selected according to the following inclusion criteria:a) caregiver (spouse or offspring) self-defined as the one principally responsible (primary caregiver) for a family member 65 years of age or over with impaired functional or cognitive autonomy;b) at risk for health problems as evaluated using the five criteria proposed by Nolan, Grant, Caldock, and Keady (1994), i.e.: the complexity of the care provided, caregiver perception of personal state of health, caregiver perceived stress, and caregiver perception of support received from family, friends and from formal services (see measures);c) French-speaking;d) no support group or psychotherapy while taking part in program; and e) able to use the basic functions of a home computer (word processing, high-speed internet and email).To determine caregiver eligibility, the study coordinator emailed caregivers who registered for the program to ask them to complete two questionnaires on a secure web page, namely, the questionnaire on health risks and a sociodemographic questionnaire to describe the characteristics of potential participants.The first 26 caregivers who registered for the program and who met the inclusion criteria made up the study’s sample. Nine caregivers (35%) dropped out between pre- and post-test. Most of these were caregivers living with a cognitively impaired elderly relative. The main reasons for withdrawing were lack of time (probably due to the fact that persons with a cognitive impairment require continuous supervision), deteriorating health of relative, and inability to use computer functions essential to program participation.The caregivers who participated at both times of the study were mostly women in their early 60s with an average of 15 years of schooling (Table 2). Mean age and mean number of years of schooling of the dropouts were similar. In terms of kinship tie, 15 of the 26 caregivers were the care recipient’s daughter. One third of the caregivers lived with their elderly relative and three looked after a relative placed in a long-term care residential facility for more than three months. Most of the caregivers had been using the internet for more than three years. The cared-for relatives were mainly women with a mean age of 84 years; 17 were cognitively impaired (Table 2)
Table 2
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