Prevention and health promotion for family caregivers (Diversity-On)

Caring for a loved one can be physically and mentally stressful for family members and caregivers. Providing care at home requires the strengthening of resources and self-management skills of family caregivers in order to be able to address the substantial burdens associated with caregiving responsibilities.

In order to address different diversity characteristics and life circumstances and ensure the best possible fit, a participatory and diversity-sensitive online self-help service is being developed and evaluated in the project.

In this context, storytelling represents a promising approach for strengthening health literacy, self-efficacy expectations and self-management skills. A mixed-methods design is used. It integrates a participatory qualitative approach for developing storytelling intervention for use in online self-help groups, a qualitative process evaluation, and a mixed-methods outcome evaluation. The project also employs a broad dissemination strategy.