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| Mental health, stress correlates and psychotropic drug use or non-use among aged caregivers to elders with dementia | | Author(s) | G Pérodeau, S Lauzon, L Lévesque |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 5, no 3, August 2001 |
| Pages | pp 225-234 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Informal care ; Mental health [elderly] ; Stress ; Drugs ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Secondary analysis of a study on the stress and psychological well-being of French-speaking Canadians caring for relatives with dementia compared older caregivers as either psychotropic drug users (n=61) or non-users (n=133), over various psychological characteristics relating to the caregiving context. Users, as compared to non-users were: more disturbed (appraised a greater stress) by the relative's dysfunctional behaviours, after controlling for the frequency of the behaviours; and experienced more conflict during interpersonal interactions, although their appraisal of self-satisfaction with formal and informal support to their care-giving activities did not differ significantly. Strikingly, users combined and called on a greater number of problem-focused and emotion-reducing coping strategies than did non-users. Stress-related measures (especially stress appraisal and conflict) contributed more to the variation in the mental distress of users than non-users. Results provide a theoretical and empirical rationale for therapeutic interventions, such as the cognitive behavioural approach. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010927209 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6: D: QNH: LLD: 7S |
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