The effect of an intervention program based on the family-centered model on the level of health literacy, understanding of the disease and the quality of life of family caregivers of the elderly with type 2 diabetes

Determining the effect of an intervention program based on the Coop Care Model on resilience, health literacy level, understanding of the disease, and quality of life of family caregivers of elderly people with type 2 diabetes

A single-blind, randomized, controlled clinical trial on 90 caregivers of elderly people with type 2 diabetes. The card methodis used for randomization.

1- The study will be conducted in health centers in Shahrekord city. 2- The study will be conducted on 90 caregivers of elderly people with type 2 diabetes. 3- Blinding is done on patients and their clinical caregivers, in such a way that until the end of the study, only the project administrator was aware of the caregiver groups, and the caregivers and patients themselves were not aware of their group type at all.

1- Willingness to participate in the study 2- Caregiver age over 18 years and under 65 years 3- Not caring for members of the health team 4- Ability to read and write in Persian 5- Self-declared that he/she does not have a known psychiatric disorder 6- The person is designated as the primary caregiver by the patient 7- The patient under the care of the elderly has type 2 diabetes

Intervention group: In this study, a six-session program is carried out over a period of one month. These sessions are conducted in nine groups of five people, with two sessions in Shahrekord city health centers for 60 minutes and four sessions in the form of telephone calls for 30 minutes, along with follow-ups through WhatsApp groups over a period of one month by the researcher. Control group: no intervention was performed in this group.

Resilience, health literacy level, understanding of illness, quality of life

Ninty caregivers of patients with type 2 diabetes who were eligible for the study are randomly assigned (by card method) to the experimental and control groups, so that 45 cards with number one and 45 cards Number two will be placed in a package in an envelope. And on the day of random division of research units, caregivers will be asked to choose a card. People who belong to number one are in the test group. And the people assigned to number two will be in the control group

The people in the intervention and control groups are not introduced to each other at all before, during, and after the intervention, and they do not meet each other until the end of the study, so they do not know which group the caregiver is in. Rather, the project administrator is only informed of which caregivers are in which group until the end of the study. Only people in the intervention group will be given the necessary supplementary materials and the necessary arrangements for holding the meetings in the WhatsApp groups, while these materials and arrangements will not be informed to the control group.