Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of the psychoeducational programme "Living together with dementia" applied to a group of family caregivers of people with dementia.
Design and methods: A quasi-experimental study with pretest and posttest and a 4-month follow-up. Fifteen family caregivers of people with dementia were recruited in a community care unit in northern Portugal.
Results: A positive and statistically significant impact on these caregivers' burden was found.
Practice implications: The programme could be an important mechanism to train family caregivers of home-dwelling people with dementia.
Keywords: dementia; family caregivers; nursing; training programmes.
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