Caregiver self-efficacy improves following complex care training: Results from the Learning Skills Together pilot study.

Family caregivers to persons living with dementia increasingly provide complex care tasks, though most (53%) do so without any training. "Complex care" includes medical/nursing tasks, as well as personal care tasks that require disease knowledge. Of the 67% of dementia caregivers who provide complex care, nearly half worry about making a mistake.

Diabetes risk, low fitness, and energy insufficiency levels among children from poor families.

Background: Low-income populations have higher rates of type 2 diabetes and it is the hope of the investigators to increase support for the dissemination of evidence-based prevention programs aimed at children from poor families.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of high blood glucose, obesity, low fitness, and energy insufficiency levels among children from poor families.

Design: The cross-sectional study conducted in fall 2001 used fasting capillary glucose, body mass index, body fat, step test, and three 24-hour dietary recalls to assess diabetes risk factor levels.