Participants

The study was conducted in collaboration with primary care dementia coordinator services in six urban municipalities in the greater Copenhagen area and Odense, the largest and third largest cities in Denmark. Between April 2019 and May 2020, eligible family carers were recruited by participating primary care dementia coordinators from their case records according to the following inclusion criteria: 1) identified as having Turkish-, Pakistani-, or Arabic-speaking background; 2) provided care for a community-dwelling relative diagnosed with dementia; 3) had cared for the person with dementia for ≥1 year and had face-to-face contact with the care recipient at least twice per week; and 4) was ≥18 years old. Family carers with other ethnic backgrounds were invited to participate in the pilot study based on whether the managing primary care dementia coordinator believed the carer could benefit from the intervention.

After inclusion, family carers were allocated to an intervention group and a treatment as usual group. To establish two groups of equal size while taking available human resources in participating municipalities into account, family carers from municipalities in greater Copenhagen were allocated to the intervention group and family carers from Odense municipality to the treatment as usual group.