Caregiving for Individuals with Chronic Illness or Injury

Measurement

Intensive Cross Cutting Lightning Round

(999412) Measuring Growth in Care partners of people with Multiple Sclerosis

Presenter(s)

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  Sonya Kim, PhD, CRC, BCB

  Assistant Professor and Research Scientist
  NYU School of Medicine Department of Neurology and Department of Rehabilitation
  New York City, New York

This symposium includes caregiving among those caring for individuals with stroke, dementia, and multiple sclerosis. The first presentation will describe a qualitative study that explores carepartners’ perceptions and experiences on evaluating a novel, web-based educational intervention using constraint induced therapy for stroke survivors. The second presentation will describe the caregiving needs among those caring for individuals with cognitive impairments and dementia compared to those without cognitive impairment. The third presentation will describe the development and psychometric properties of a novel scale—the post-traumatic growth scale that measures the positive effects of caregiving, especially the experience of growth among caregivers.

Learning Objectives:

• Demonstrate the role of carepartners among those participating in a novel, web-based educational intervention
• Describe the caregiving needs among those with cognitive disease and dementia
• List the potential benefits of caregiving, using a novel growth scale