The importance of the impact of a loved one's illness on the caregiver's own mental health and the consequences of this impact on their physical health, as well as on their ability to help the patient and on the patient's condition, needs to be better evaluated in order to mobilize appropriate resources. In addition, interventions for caregivers need to be evaluated in terms of efficacy, effectiveness, impact, stability of the results, the preservation of the fidelity of the delivery of an intervention, and efficiency, in order to promote the most appropriate approaches in each particular environment.
This Research Topic aims to cover evaluations of tools or interventions targeting caregivers with the goal of improving the health of the care receiver and the health of caregivers.
We welcome original studies covering the following topics:
• quantification of the caregivers' suffering compared to the general population, and the health consequences for them or the patients of this suffering in different pathologies.
• validation of tools to measure this suffering or the impact of this suffering from a health perspective
• evaluation of interventions in favor of caregivers in terms of:
• efficacy - evaluation of the beneficial change of a given intervention under ideal or
controlled conditions, by comparing change in relevant indicators before and after
• effectiveness - evaluation of degree to which something is successful in producing
a desired result
• impact - evaluation of the potential effects of an intervention on the health and
health cost of a population
• durability of the result after the intervention
• fidelity and sustainability - evaluation of the preservation of the fidelity of the
intervention's execution over time and over different situations
• efficiency - evaluation of the relationship between the outcomes and inputs of any
intervention, the financial cost of an intervention versus the financial gain in terms of
public health.
The importance of the impact of a loved one's illness on the caregiver's own mental health and the consequences of this impact on their physical health, as well as on their ability to help the patient and on the patient's condition, needs to be better evaluated in order to mobilize appropriate resources. In addition, interventions for caregivers need to be evaluated in terms of efficacy, effectiveness, impact, stability of the results, the preservation of the fidelity of the delivery of an intervention, and efficiency, in order to promote the most appropriate approaches in each particular environment.
This Research Topic aims to cover evaluations of tools or interventions targeting caregivers with the goal of improving the health of the care receiver and the health of caregivers.
We welcome original studies covering the following topics:
• quantification of the caregivers' suffering compared to the general population, and the health consequences for them or the patients of this suffering in different pathologies.
• validation of tools to measure this suffering or the impact of this suffering from a health perspective
• evaluation of interventions in favor of caregivers in terms of:
• efficacy - evaluation of the beneficial change of a given intervention under ideal or
controlled conditions, by comparing change in relevant indicators before and after
• effectiveness - evaluation of degree to which something is successful in producing
a desired result
• impact - evaluation of the potential effects of an intervention on the health and
health cost of a population
• durability of the result after the intervention
• fidelity and sustainability - evaluation of the preservation of the fidelity of the
intervention's execution over time and over different situations
• efficiency - evaluation of the relationship between the outcomes and inputs of any
intervention, the financial cost of an intervention versus the financial gain in terms of
public health.
