Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: The Dementia Home Care Project: a Randomised Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Effectiveness of a Home Care Program for Supporting Caregivers of Persons With Dementia in Developing Countries: a Randomised Controlled Trial From Goa, India
Brief Summary: The aim of this trial was to apply a home based, flexible, stepped-care intervention designed to improve the awareness and knowledge of family caregivers regarding dementia, to maximise their caregiving resources and to improve their caregiving skills. A Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) will be used to evaluate the same wherein the intervention group will get the services immediately and the control arm would receive the same after a period of 6 months.


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

* Focus Group-User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) Participants: Aged 18 or older; ability to attend 1-2 sessions (90 minutes per session)
* Family Participants: Families who are (a) a Sierra Leonean household with cohabitating caregivers (e.g., father/mother, mother/grandmother, mother/intimate partner), and child (aged 6-36 months) with both parents aged 18 or older and; (b) one parent scoring at least 62.5 on the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS). The DERS cut-off score has been used successfully as a risk assessment screening tool in our prior and ongoing studies in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leonean caregivers scoring above this threshold on the DERS have reported significantly higher levels of severe physical punishment with their children as well as intimate partner violence. Both parents must agree to attend FSI-ECD sessions. If enrolled families have more than one child aged 6-36 months, we will include all eligible children as study participants.
* Community Health Worker Participants: CHWs who are 18 years or older and who are assigned to the Peripheral Health Unit that provides health services in one of our target communities.
* Community Health Worker Supervisor Participants: Supervisors are 18 years or older and oversee CHWs providing maternal and child health services

Exclusion Criteria:

* Focus Group-User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) Participants: Individuals younger than age 18 and individuals who do not meet inclusion criteria.
* Family Participants: Families who do not meet all inclusion criteria and/or who are experiencing active family crises (e.g., current suicidality or psychosis, cognitive impairment, ongoing divorce process).
* Community Health Worker Participants: Individuals under age 18 cannot be recruited to work as a CHW.
* Community Health Worker Supervisor Participants: Individuals under age 18.
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* household in participating 10 villages with at least one member:

  * 16 years or older,
  * male or female
  * interest in animal husbandry microfinance,
  * vulnerable, including survivor of sexual violence, widow, single mother
  * children under age 18 in the home.

Exclusion Criteria:

* do not live in villages included in study
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* All probable cases will be examined by a trained clinician (AD) to confirm the diagnosis of dementia according to DSM IV criteria and graded using the Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) Scale.
* CDR mild and moderate dementia.
* The principal caregiver, as identified by the family, was enrolled for the trial. The principal caregiver was generally the spouse, although in some instances another family member was the principal caregiver, particularly when the spouse was not in a position to care.

Exclusion Criteria:

* CDR severe dementia or severe co-morbid physical health conditions.
D: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Age 18 or above;
2. Able to speak and understand the target languages: Arabic, and/or Urdu, and/or Dari, and/or English;
3. Asylum seeker or refugee;
4. Presence of psychological distress, as shown by a score of 3 or more at the 12 item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12 ≥ 3);
5. Both oral and written informed consent to enter the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Presence of any mental disorders according to DSM-V and ICD-10, as shown by a positive M.I.N.I.;
2. Acute medical conditions contraindicating study participation, based on clinical judgment of the health care professional with a clinical background who performs the screening;
3. Clinical evidence of imminent suicide risk or suicide risk scored as "moderate or high" (or a positive suicidality behaviour disorder) by the M.I.N.I. (section SUICIDALITY);
4. Clinical evidence that the decision-making capacity is impaired.

Answer: C