Learned Resourcefulness Intervention

A quasi‐experimental trail will be used to test the effects of a learned resourcefulness intervention program on the learned resourcefulness, caregiver burden, quality of life for older family caregivers. Through the use of convenience sampling strategy, one teaching medical hospital with approximately 104 older family caregivers in southern Taiwan will be recruited and simple randomly assigned based on teaching medical hospital to a Learned resourcefulness intervention program experimental group or a wait‐list control group. Participants in the experimental group will receive the learned resourcefulness intervention program led by researcher, one time per week, 50 minutes for one week, 10 minutes for these weeks; participants in the wait‐list control group will continue to receive their home care service. One pre‐test and two post‐tests, all participants will assessed for learned resourcefulness, caregiver burden, quality of life at baseline, and at 5 and 9 weeks of the study.