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Digital tools for delivery of dementia education for caregivers of persons with dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of impact on caregiver distress and depressive symptoms

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  • Andrea Scerbe
  • Megan E O’Connell
  • Arlene Astell
  • Debra Morgan
  • Julie Kosteniuk
  • Ivan Panyavin
  • Andrea DesRoches
  • Claire Webster

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Continuing education for dementia has been shown to be beneficial by improving informal caregiver knowledge, dementia care, management, and caregiver physical and mental health. Technology-based dementia education has been noted to have equivalent effects as in-person education, but with the added benefit of asynchronous and/or remote delivery, which increases accessibility. Using Cochrane review methodology, this study systematically reviewed the literature on technology-based dementia education and its impacts on caregivers. Technology-based delivery included dementia education delivered via the Internet, telephone, telehealth, videophone, computer, or digital video device (DVD). In the review, twenty-eight studies were identified with fourteen included in a meta-analysis, and these data revealed a significant small effect of technologically based dementia education on reducing caregiver depression, and a medium effect on reducing caregiver distress in response to caregivers’ observations of behavioral problems displayed by persons with dementia. No evidence was found for a significant effect of the educational intervention on caregiver burden or self-efficacy, which are known to be gendered aspects of caregiving. None of the studies included in the meta-analysis reported separate outcomes for male and female care providers, which has implications for gendered caregiving norms and aspects of care.Registration number: PROSPERO 2018 CRD42018092599.

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  • Andrea Scerbe & Megan E O’Connell & Arlene Astell & Debra Morgan & Julie Kosteniuk & Ivan Panyavin & Andrea DesRoches & Claire Webster, 2023. "Digital tools for delivery of dementia education for caregivers of persons with dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of impact on caregiver distress and depressive symptoms," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 18(5), pages 1-26, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0283600
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0283600
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