Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Evaluation of the Effects of Mutual Support and Psycho-educational Group Interventions for Family Caregivers of People With Schizophrenia
Brief Summary: The mutual support group intervention would significantly improve the families' burden of care, functioning and social support, reduce the patients' severity of symptoms and re-hospitalizations, and reduce the demands for utilization of family services, when compared with the standard care group.


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

They were caregivers aged 25 or above and must have be caring for a care recipient diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease for at least 3 months. They should be the primary caregiver and a spouse, kin (e.g. daughter/son or daughter/son-in-law) or sibling of the care recipient.

Exclusion Criteria:

To ensure intervention fidelity, participants who showed signs of severe intellectual deficits, demonstrate suicidal ideation, exhibit evidence of psychotic disorders, or cannot read or speak fluent Chinese / Cantonese were excluded.
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patient living in community and ambulatory
* Patient has diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
* Patient age 50-95
* Caregiver age 18-90
* Patient currently under treatment for Alzheimer's disease
* Patient and caregiver reside within 2 hours of Los Angeles
* Caregiver has home internet access
* Patient has close contact with caregiver

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patient lives in residential setting
* No family contact
* Acute illness or chronic disease in patient or caregiver
* Patient or caregiver plans to leave area within the year
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* medical ICD-10 dementia diagnosis available for the patient (F00.-\*: Alzheimer disease or related disorders, F01.-: Vascular dementia, F03.-:Unspecified dementia)
* living with or sharing cooking facilities with the care recipient or providing care for a relative with diagnosed Alzheimer disease or related disorders for at least 4 hours on at least 4 days of a week for at least the past 6 months, respectively
* access to a telephone connection to be able to participate in the talking Time Intervention and the telephone- based interviews for the evaluation

Exclusion Criteria:

* lack of knowledge of German Language of informal caregiver
* risk of suicide in the informal caregiver
* actual psychiatric diagnosis of mental illness of the caregiver
* ICD-10-diagnosis of Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere (F02.-\*), except Dementia in Primary Parkinson disease (F02.3\*) and Lewy Body disease (F02.8/G31.82)
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* family caregivers lived with and cared for one family member diagnosed with schizophrenia according to the criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition (DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994)
* family caregivers were at least 18 years of age and could understand and read the Chinese (Mandarin) language; and
* family caregivers were free from any mental illness themselves.

Exclusion Criteria:

* the patients with schizophrenia suffered no co-morbidity due to other mental illness during recruitment to the study
* family caregivers cared for more than one family member with mental or chronic physical illness; and/or
* family caregivers had been the primary carers for less than three months

Answer: D