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| Determinants of satisfaction with care and emotional distress among informal carers of demented and non-demented elderly patients | | Author(s) | Yakubu M Mafullul, Richard K Morriss |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 15, no 7, July 2000 |
| Pages | pp 594-599 |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Life satisfaction ; Stress ; Depression. |
| Annotation | No previous study has examined both the emotional difficulties and satisfaction with the caregiving role in a sample of patients with dementia and non-dementing disorders. Principal informal caregivers to 91 patients with dementing or non-dementing disorders were identified from consecutive referrals to community psychiatric nurses in an old-age psychiatric service. Clinical, demographic, service and carer satisfaction variables were recorded. Carers' emotional distress (only a weak correlation with dissatisfaction) was measured with the 28-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). Greater dissatisfaction with the caregiving role was indicated by the degree of difficulty and younger age of the carer. Emotional distress was independently associated with the degree of difficulty in the caregiving situation and inversely with the patient's dependency on care. The caregiver's assessment of the difficulty with caregiving was associated with both carer dissatisfaction and emotional distress in the caregiving role. While emotional distress was associated with a perception that patients could do more for themselves, carer dissatisfaction was associated with younger age carers who had competing demands, particularly work. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000823228 A |
| Classmark | P6: F:5HH: QNH: ENR |
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