Clinical trial NCT03994237: Accompanying ALZHEIMER CAREGIVER
Official title: ALZHEIMER'S CAREGIVER Accompaniment
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Alzheimer Disease
Lead sponsor: University Hospital, Bordeaux
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-06-21
Enrollment: 45
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: CASE_ONLY
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Helping with age ≥ 18 years, speaking and understanding the French and available to accompany the patient to the consultation

Brief summary: Initiatives have been taken hotline in France and abroad for other conditions, they provide support to patients and their caregivers.

Detailed description: This is a descriptive pilot study, non-interventional, before / after, mono-centric, evaluative, prospective cohort with type score description. The tool used is the grid "mini Zarit", she evaluates the caregiver burden. This grid is enabled in the French version and commonly used in these pathologies.

The evaluation of the quality of life of the caregiver will be performed with the scale "EQ-5D". This tool is easy to use phone, it contains few items. Also there is very little evidence referring to the suffering or negative feelings. It therefore avoids inducing to helping unknown team consultation memory an emotionally negative discourse.

There is no validated tool measuring the service delivered to a nurse hotline. The investigators offer a nurse questionnaire 7 items grouping expectations for the first consultation memory (consultation period, diagnosis, course of the consultation, organization of monitoring). It also provides an update on the daily experiences of the caregiver relative to the organization of care and helped the organization of domestic life of helped.

Nursing questionnaire will assess whether the responses of the nurse in relation to questions about the memory request for consultation were understood in relation to the items. Also, if the caregiver is in support of application in everyday life, the questionnaire will determine if the nursing accompaniment allows the caregiver to acquire knowledge or skills, or better organization of everyday life. The question of the entourage of the caregiver assesses the isolation level of the caregiver and whether the environment is not mobilized or after an update with the nurse.

If help is hospitalized, the pattern will be recovered. The Scientific Council will assess whether the information collected and the information provided would have prevented it.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Helping with age ≥ 18 years
* Helping speak and understand the French
* Help available to accompany the patient to the consultation
* Helping calling for the first time the memory center
* Helping who noticed a cognitive disorder in assisted
* Age over 75 years
* beneficiary or affiliated to a social security scheme Patient
* Patient with a cognitive disorder noticed by the caregiver

Exclusion Criteria:

* Helping placed under judicial protection
* Any medical or paramedical personnel in connection with the care of a nursing home eligible patient (Accommodation Establishment for dependent elderly, hospital, SSR (Care and Rehabilitation Services), institutional caregivers,
* private health professionals, such as neighborhood (doctor, nurse liberal, physiotherapist
* Neighborhood.

Primary outcomes:
measure: score of the grid "MiniZarit"
timeFrame: Month 1
measure: score of the EuroQuol scale
timeFrame: Month 1
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Number of days between pre-clinical consultation and consultation MEMORY
timeFrame: Month 3
measure: Questionnary for caregivers' organization
timeFrame: Day 1
measure: Questionnary for caregivers' organization
timeFrame: Month 1
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Pessac
country: France
facility: CHU de Bordeaux
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Bordeaux
name: Isabelle GUILLARD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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