Influence of telephone follow up on burden of care and qual ity of l ife of main caregivers of Parkinson’s disease
Abstract：Obj ective:To evaluate the influence of telephone follow up on burden of care and quality of life of main caregivers of Parkinson’s disease.Methods:A total of 80 caregivers were randomly divided into control group and intervention group,40 cases in each.Patients in inter-vention group received regular telephone follow up while patients in control group got routine health education.After 6 months of interven-tion,the intervention effect was compared by using Caregiver Burden Questionnaire (CBI)and health survey (SF 3 6 ).Results:The caregiv-ers’burden and quality of life in intervention group were significantly better than that in control group after six months of intervention.Con-clusion:Telephone follow-up can reduce the burden of caregivers and improve their quality of life.
Keywords：Parkinson’s diseasecaregiversburdenquality of life
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 1069-1071 )