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. 2019 May 14;2019(5):CD012533. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD012533.pub2

NCT03260608.

Methods Randomised controlled trial
Participants Caregivers of patients with dementia
Interventions Title of the intervention: Telesupport psychoeducation and support
Aim: No detail provided
Interventionist(s): No detail provided
Duration: Eight weeks
Content: In addition to usual primary health care, participants will receive psychoeducational guidelines and support in the management of their relatives with dementia. They will have access to a number of phones to spontaneously contact specific guidelines during the eight weeks of intervention.
Standardisation: No detail provided
Comparison group: Control group with usual follow‐up at primary health care
Outcomes 1. Quality of life: WHOQoL
2. Burden: Zarit Burden Interview
3. Depression: Beck Depression Inventory
 4. Anxiety: Beck Anxiety Inventory
 Data will be collected at week 9 and 18.
Notes More detail is required on the guidelines that participants in the intervention group will have access to during the intervention. Interventionists need to be identified.

BCOS: Bakas caregiver outcomes scale
 CAFU: Caregiver assessment of function and upset scale
 CAT: Computerised tomography scan
 CBT: Cognitive behavioural therapy
 CES‐D: Center for epidemiological depression scale
 CHF‐PC: Comprehensive heartcare for patients and caregivers
 CSI: Caregiver strain index
 CYC:Charting your course
 DCM: Dementia care management 
 ENABLE: Educate, nurture, advise, before life ends, comprehensive heartcare for patients and caregivers
 EPIC: Expanded prostate cancer index composite scale
 FITT: Family Intervention: telephone tracking
 HADS: Hospital anxiety and depression scale
 HCC: Home‐based continuing care
 HF: Heart failure
 HIV: Human immunodeficiency virus
 MBCB: Montgomery Borgatta caregiver burden scale
 MRI: Magnetic resonance imaging
 PA‐CST: Partner‐assisted coping skills training
 PCT: Palliative care team
 PHQ‐9: Patient health questionnaire‐9
 PNC: Palliative care nurse coach
 POMs‐SF:Profile of mood states‐ short form 
 PROMIS SF: Patient reported outcomes measurement information system short form
 PST:Problem‐solving training
 OEF:Operation enduring freedom
 OIF:Operation Iraqi freedom
 SE: Self‐efficacy
 TAPES: Telephone‐assisted pleasant‐event scheduling
 TAP‐VA: Tailored activity program ‐ Veterans Affairs
 TAU: Treatment as usual
 TBI: Traumatic brain injury
 VA: Veterans Affairs
 VAMC:Veterans Administration Medical Center
 YA: Youth adult
 WHOQoL: World health organisation quality of life