Bibliotherapy for Improving Caregiving Appraisal Among Informal Caregivers of People With Dementia: A Pilot RCT

"Bibliotherapy is the use of reading materials for therapeutic benefits. In this study, an evidence-based modified manual will be used as the reading material. The manual adopts the self-directed problem-solving approach to dementia caregiving, examples of how other caregivers solve the specific problem for each chapter is included in the corresponding chapter. Bibliotherapy also involves guided learning by reading written information, enabling caregivers to solve their caregiving problems step-by-step, so telephone coach is designed to figure out participants understanding, find out the unsolved problems and guide them for finding out the solution by themselves."