Pilot Study of a Transitional Intervention for Family Caregivers of Older Adults
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Objectif: Évaluation (faisabilité, acceptabilité, pertinence et bienfaits potentiels) d'une intervention de transition pour proches aidants. Méthode: L'intervention visait à fournir du soutien émotionnel, de l'information sur les ressources communautaires et du soutien au développement des capacités d'adaptation pour les proches aidants de patients de 65 ans et plus qui avaient reçu leur congé suite à une hospitalisation de courte durée. L'approche méthodologique a impliqué un seul groupe, qui a été évalué lors d'un pré-test et d'un post-test effectué trois mois après le début de l'intervention. Résultats: Quatre-vingt-onze dyades patients-proches ont été recrutées. Soixante-trois (69 %) proches aidants ont reçu les cinq séances d'intervention (tel que prévu) et 60 (66 %) proches aidants ont complété le test final. Une diminution significative de l'anxiété et de la dépression des proches aidants et un taux de satisfaction élevé ont été notés après l'intervention. Discussion: Cette intervention de transition pour les patients plus âgés et leurs proches aidants devrait faire l'objet d'une évaluation plus poussée, de préférence avec un groupe de contrôle, en tant qu'intervention autonome ou comme une composante d'une intervention de transition complète. Objective: To conduct a formative evaluation of a transitional intervention for family caregivers, with assessment of feasibility, acceptability, appropriateness, and potential benefits. Methods: The intervention aimed to provide emotional support, information on community resources, and information and support for development of coping skills for the caregivers of patients aged 65 and older who were to be discharged home from an acute medical hospital admission. We used a one-group, pre- and three-month post-test study design. Results: Ninety-one patient-caregiver dyads were recruited. Of these, 63 caregivers (69%) received all five planned intervention sessions, while 60 (66%) completed the post-test. There were significant reductions in caregiver anxiety and depression following the intervention, and high rates of satisfaction. Discussion: This transitional intervention should be further evaluated, preferably with a control group, either as a stand-alone intervention or as one component of a comprehensive transitional intervention for older patients and their caregivers.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".