Systematic care for caregivers of people with dementia in the ambulatory mental health service: designing a multicentre, cluster, randomized, controlled trial

Table 1 Outcome measures

Variable	PO	SO	EE	BG	Instrument/Source	T0	T1	T2	T3	T4
Professionals
Job satisfaction			✓		Job satisfaction, subscale from the Consultants' Mental Health Questionnaire	✓				✓
Gender				✓	SCPD questionnaire	✓
Informal caregivers
Sense of competence		✓			SCQ	✓				✓
Quality of life		✓			EQ-5D	✓				✓
Depressive symptoms		✓			CES-D	✓				✓
Caregiver distress		✓			NPI-Q	✓				✓
Time spent giving care			✓		RUD	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Age				✓	RUD	✓
Gender				✓	RUD	✓
Ethnicity				✓	RUD	✓
Education				✓	RUD	✓
Marital status				✓	RUD	✓				✓
Living arrangement				✓	RUD	✓				✓
Relation with the patient				✓	SCPD questionnaire	✓
Shared household with the patient				✓	SCPD questionnaire	✓				✓
People with dementia
Housing conditions/residence	✓		✓	✓	RUD	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Quality of life		✓			Qol-AD	✓				✓
Behavior problems		✓			NPI-Q	✓				✓
Healthcare services used			✓		RUD	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Severity of dementia				✓	DSM-III-TR	✓
Age				✓	RUD	✓
Gender				✓	RUD	✓
Ethnicity				✓	RUD	✓
Education				✓	RUD	✓
Marital status				✓	RUD	✓				✓
Living arrangement				✓	RUD	✓				✓
Children				✓	RUD	✓
Children living in				✓	RUD	✓

PO, primary outcome; SO, secondary outcome; EE, economic evaluation; BG, background; T0, baseline measure; T1, 3-month follow-up measure; T2, 6-month follow-up measure; T3, 9-month follow-up measure; T4, 12-month follow-up measure; CES-D, Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale; DSM-III-TR, Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 3^rd text revision; EQ-5D, EuroQol-5D; NPI-Q, Neuropsychiatric Problems Inventory Questionnaire; Qol-AD, Quality of Life in Alzheimer's Disease; RUD, Resource Utilization in Dementia; SCQ, Sense of Competence Questionnaire; SPCD, Systematic Care Program for Dementia.

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