SOSteniamoci: Stakeholders' Survey

Sponsor

Istituto Auxologico Italiano (Other)

Overall Status

Completed

CT.gov ID

NCT05797571

Collaborator

(none)

150

Enrollment

Location

Actual Duration (Months)

13.7

Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

Informal care is defined as the unpaid care provided to an older, frail, or ill person, by a person such as a spouse, a parent, a child, another relative, a neighbor, or a friend. This phenomenon may lead to stress, burden, and decreased informal caregivers' quality of life. Since lack of time, distance from services, and financial strains make the provision of psychological interventions to informal caregivers often challenging, Internet-based (self-help) programs might represent a viable solution to promote their emotional well-being. Still, despite the proven benefits of internet-based intervention, no available programs for informal caregivers are available for the Italian population. Nevertheless, planning and developing an online intervention, involving possible stakeholders (caregivers), might facilitate the understanding and dissemination of, willingness to use, and success of the future intervention. Thus, the goal of the current study is to assess Italian stakeholders' knowledge about, awareness of, attitudes towards, willingness to participate and use, and expected barriers to internet-based interventions.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Informal Caregivers

Detailed Description

The present study assessed the knowledge and awareness, attitudes, willingness to participate in, and expected barriers towards using Internet-based interventions to alleviate caregivers' burden in a sample of Italian caregivers and clinicians. To this aim, an online stakeholders' survey was conducted in Italy among clinicians and informal caregivers, using a snowballing sampling technique. Participants were asked to fill in the informed consent and complete the online survey as a clinician, a caregiver, or both. Data were monitored daily. Descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation analysis were used for data analysis.

Study Design

Study Type:

Observational

Actual Enrollment :

150 participants

Observational Model:

Cohort

Time Perspective:

Cross-Sectional

Official Title:

Informal Caregivers and Clinicians' Knowledge, Awareness, Attitude and Expect Barriers Towards Internet-based Interventions: A Stakeholders' Survey in Italy

Actual Study Start Date :

Jan 15, 2022

Actual Primary Completion Date :

Dec 15, 2022

Actual Study Completion Date :

Dec 15, 2022

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Mean score in Online survey for clinicians [At baseline, during online survey, performed after signing informed consent]
Online survey for clinicians - 30 items
Mean score in Online survey for informal caregivers [At baseline, during online survey, performed after signing informed consent]
Online survey for informal caregivers - 45 items

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

18 Years and Older

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

clinicians and informal caregivers
aged 18 years or older
internet access
basic computer literacy

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Giada Pietrabissa	Milan		Italy	20145

Sponsors and Collaborators

Istituto Auxologico Italiano

Investigators

Principal Investigator: Giada Pietrabissa, PhD, Istituto Auxologico Italiano

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

Responsible Party:

Istituto Auxologico Italiano

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:

NCT05797571

Other Study ID Numbers:

03C212

First Posted:

Apr 4, 2023

Last Update Posted:

Apr 4, 2023

Last Verified:

Mar 1, 2023

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product:

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product:

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Apr 4, 2023