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| Measurement and correlates of family caregiver self-efficacy for managing dementia | | Author(s) | R H Fortinsky, K Kercher, C J Burant |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 6, no 2, May 2002 |
| Pages | pp 153-160 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Self esteem ; Competence ; Family care ; Usage [services] ; Dementia ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | 197 family caregivers were interviewed after contacting a local Alzheimer's Association in the mid-western US. Nine items enquiring about caregivers' certainty that they could carry out specific behaviours related to dementia care clustered into two distinct self-efficacy factors: symptoms management self-efficacy (4 items), and community service support use self-efficacy (5 items). Internal consistency reliability for both factors was high. Symptom management self-efficacy demonstrated a much stronger correlation with a published global caregiver competence measure than did service use self-efficacy. In a multivariate regression model predicting caregiver depression symptoms, higher symptom management self-efficacy scores were associated with fewer depressive symptoms. In a separate model, higher service use self-efficacy scores and higher symptom management self-efficacy scores were associated with fewer physical health symptoms. These new measures of dementia management self-efficacy hold promise for use in future studies. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020613210 A |
| Classmark | DPA: DPB: P6:SJ: QLD: EA: 4C: 7T |
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