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| A longitudinal analysis of caregiver mental burden and well-being | | Author(s) | McKee J McClendon, Kathleen A Smyth |
| Journal title | Journal of Mental Health and Aging, vol 8 no 1, Spring 2002 |
| Pages | pp 19-28 |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Stress ; Well being ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Although it has been argued that caregiver burden and caregiver well-being tap the same underlying construct, recent studies appear to contradict that view using cross-sectional data. The authors examine this issue, by applying multilevel models to repeated measures of up to 6 years in duration of caregiver reports of mental burden and mental well-being. Although they find that changes in burden and well-being have a highly significant, positive relationship, well-being shows a linear decrease over time, independent of changes in caregiver burden. They conclude that mental burden and mental well-being are highly related but are distinct constructs, and that both should be included as outcome measures in caregiver intervention studies. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020924218 A |
| Classmark | P6: QNH: D:F:5HH: 3J: 7T |
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