'Delirium detection and management interventions for informal caregivers in the c' (AsPredicted #160678)
Author(s) This pre-registration is currently anonymous to enable blind peer-review. It has 4 authors.
Pre-registered on 2024/02/02 - 10:44 AM (PT)
1) Have any data been collected for this study already? No, no data have been collected for this study yet.
2) What's the main question being asked or hypothesis being tested in this study? The objective of this scoping review is to synthesize the evidence on interventions that aim to help informal caregivers identify and manage delirium in older people in the community. The review question is: What interventions that aim to help informal caregivers know how to detect and/or manage delirium in the community have been studied and described.
3) Describe the key dependent variable(s) specifying how they will be measured. Not Applicable.
4) How many and which conditions will participants be assigned to? Not Applicable.
5) Specify exactly which analyses you will conduct to examine the main question/hypothesis. Data analysis will involve descriptive statistics including frequencies, counts, and measures of central tendency and variation (e.g., medians and ranges for duration of the intervention) as well as p-values, and effect sizes, where available, to describe the main findings reported in effectiveness studies. Textual data will be subjected to conventional content analysis. Data presentation is planned to be in tabular format. A narrative summary will accompany tabulated and/or charted results and will describe how the results relate to the review objective, questions, and sub-questions.
6) Describe exactly how outliers will be defined and handled, and your precise rule(s) for excluding observations. This review will include papers that targeted informal, unpaid caregivers including family members, friends, volunteers, or neighbours providing care or support to an older person (aged 65+). Papers that did not include informal caregivers will be excluded as will papers in which informal caregivers' views and perspectives cannot be separated from those of patients and healthcare professionals. Papers on pharmacological interventions will also be excluded. Papers written since 1980, the year that delirium became a diagnostic entity in the DSM-III, will be considered for inclusion.
7) How many observations will be collected or what will determine sample size? No need to justify decision, but be precise about exactly how the number will be determined. The number of papers covered in the review will depend on the number that meet the eligibility criteria.
8) Anything else you would like to pre-register? (e.g., secondary analyses, variables collected for exploratory purposes, unusual analyses planned?) Not Applicable.
