Background: Improving the effective coping strategies of caregivers of Alzheimer's patients lead to a decrease in care pressure and ultimately, promotion of their health. Aim:To evaluate the effect of coping strategies program on quality of life and burden of care among caregivers of Alzheimer patients at Port Said City. Design: A quasiexperimental design was applied. Setting: This study was carried out at neurologic outpatient clinics of the psychiatric hospital in Port Said city. Subjects: Purposive sample (110) of all family caregivers of the Alzheimer's patients were included in this study. Tools of data collection:The Family Caregivers' Socio-Demographic Information Questionnaire; Caregivers' Burden Scale; and Short Form Health-Related Quality of Life translated Scale were used. Results: Mean age of the caregivers was 41.36 ± 12.74 years and 70.9% of them were females. There was a reduction in total caregivers' burden in post-test phase of the program compared to the pre and follow-up stages. In addition, there were highly statistically significant differences between total items of the caregiver burden assessment through all phases of the program. Also, there was an obvious improvement in the caregivers' quality of life levels during the program. Conclusion:After implementation of the program, those Caregivers who received the designed program reduced their care burden experienced and affected their quality of life positively. Recommendations: Continuous health educations programs for caregivers of Alzheimer's patients are necessary needed and further studies using a large study sample size in different settings are highly recommended.

BackgroundThe burden associated with caring for Alzheimer's patients not only affects the health of family caregivers and increases their mortality risk, but also reduces the quality of caregiving .Aim: To assess burden and quality of life of caregivers of Alzheimer's patients .Design: A cross-sectional descriptive research design was applied.Setting: This study was carried out at neurologic outpatient clinics of psychiatric hospital in Port Said city. Subjects: A Purposive sample of all family caregivers of Alzheimer's patients (110) were included. Tools of data collection: Family Caregivers' Socio-Demographic Information Questionnaire; Caregivers' Burden Scale; and Short Form Health-Related Quality of Scale were used. Results: Mean age of caregivers was 41.36 ± 12.74 and more than two-thirds of them were females. Also, physical burden was the most prevalent at 19.45±3.47 among caregivers. Furthermore, the highest percentage 71.8% of caregivers reported having poor quality of life concerning limitations of activities. Additionally, there was a highly statistically significant positive correlation between the total quality of care of caregivers of Alzheimer's patients with caregiver's total burden assessment at P<0.05. Conclusion: Total burden assessment among the caregivers of Alzheimer's patients was 51.43±9.20; with a higher percentage of the caregivers of Alzheimer patients had the total average quality of life, while a lower percentage of the caregivers of Alzheimer patients had a total average good quality of life. Recommendations: Continuous health educations programs for caregivers of Alzheimer's patients are necessary needed and further studies using a large study sample size in different settings are highly recommended.