Promoting Healthy Caregiving: Digitalized Education and Support for Family Caregivers
Abstract
The proposed project will leverage the research team's experience delivering a successful hospital-based caregiver education program, mixed-methods research expertise, and recent innovations in online education technology to create an easily accessible, highly scalable, dynamic web-based program for family Caregivers of Veterans with SCI. The proposed project is still in the development and administrative stages. The project will use a mixture of qualitative and quantitative data collection to create a web-based education program that is rooted in the experiences of three key stakeholder groups: family Caregivers of Veterans with SCI, Veterans with SCI, and SCI professionals. The program will complement existing Veterans Health Administration's (VHA) caregiver resources by giving special attention to family Caregivers' needs and concerns related to functional, medical, and psychosocial challenges created by SCI. In Phase 1 of the project, a curriculum for the program will be developed based on data obtained from focus groups with key stakeholders (family Caregivers, Veterans, and SCI professionals), who will identify learning needs and recommend content for the proposed web-based program. In Phase 2, the team will develop multimedia content for the program, with technical assistance from the Employee Education Services Department of the VA, ongoing feedback from a Community Advisory Board, and input from a focus group of stakeholders who will review the complete program prior to pilot testing. In Phase 3, the program will be pilot tested with SCI family Caregivers, who will complete questionnaires and cognitive interviews to provide detailed data on perceptions of program content and format, as well as recommended changes. Additional feedback will be obtained from interviews with Veterans with SCI and SCI professionals who are nave to the program.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2023
- Accession Number
- AD1219062
Entities
People
- Carol Gibson-gill
- Denise Fyffe
- Jazmin Torres
- Jeanne Zanca
- Joyce Williams
- Maryann Rosenburg
- Tomicka Mcmillion