• Víctor Ortiz-Mallasén, Eloy Claramonte-Gual, Águeda Cervera-Gasch, and Esther Cabrera-Torres.
• Departament de Salut de La Plana, Conselleria de Sanitat Universal i Salut Pública, Vila-real, Castellón, España; Departamento de Enfermería, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, España. Electronic address: ortizmallasen@gmail.com.
• Aten Primaria. 2021 Jan 1; 53 (1): 60-66.

ObjectiveEvaluate the effectiveness of an intervention to family caregivers.DesignQuasi-experimental study of type before/after, without control group.SettingPrimary care; 5 primary care centers of Castelló city.PeriodBetween the month of January 2018 and the month of January 2019.Participants72 family caregivers, participants in a specific intervention recently implemented in the Department de Salut de Castelló.InterventionTraining to family caregivers, seeking to improve knowledge of dependent care, and provide support. Ten group sessions of 120minutes.Principal MeasurementsDescriptive of sociodemographic data. Comparison of the variables overload, low back pain, social support and health-related quality of life before-after the intervention. Variable response: caregiver overload. Bivariate and multivariate analysis.ResultsAll family caregivers had baseline overload (59.93±14.71); 73.3% showed low back pain, with an average level of 5.13±2.56 and moderate disability (41.7%). 50% received little social support and a great impact on health-related quality of life, especially in terms of pain and anxiety. After the intervention, there was a significant improvement (P=.004) in social support, as well as positive descriptive changes in disability due to low back pain and health-related quality of life dimensions. No progress was found (P>.05) for the presence and level of low back pain, as well as overload levels.ConclusionsThe resulting effective intervention to improve perceived social support. However, the low impact on other variables suggests reconsidering its contents, as well as encouraging new prospective studies that may offer more encouraging results.Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

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