Process Evaluation of Nurse-Led Online Self-Management Support for Family Caregivers to Deal With Behavior Changes of a Relative With Dementia (Part 1): Mixed Methods Study.
Judith G Huis In Het VeldIris F M van AschBernadette M WillemsePaul-Jeroen VerkadeAnne Margriet PotMarco M BlomRob B M Groot ZwaaftinkAnneke L FranckePublished in: Journal of medical Internet research (2019)
An important insight is that not all participants made optimum use of the various elements of the intervention. Nurses also said that the email contacts were more often used to express feelings about coping with behavioral changes. More research is needed to investigate the reasons why people accept, adopt, and adhere to online interventions to reduce cases where they are not used and to back them up appropriately with tailored (online) information and advice for their personal situations.