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The relative utility of four abridged versions of the Zarit Burden Interview
Author(s)	Norm O'Rourke, Holly A Tuokko
Journal title	Journal of Mental Health and Aging, vol 9 no 1, Spring 2003
Pages	55-64
Keywords	Informal care ; Dementia ; Stress ; Evaluation ; Screening ; Canada.
Annotation	In recent years, various abridged versions of the Zarit Burden Interview have been devised to facilitate screening and detection of distress in those who provide informal care to people with dementia. The psychometric properties of responses to four such measures are compared with data derived from a sample of 503 caregivers recruited as part of a longitudinal Canadian study of dementia prevalence and patterns of care. Analyses of item content, internal consistency, factor structure, and concurrent validity suggest that responses to the 12-item brief burden measure by Hébert and colleagues would appear to possess optimal psychometric properties as compared to others. It is of note, however, that the differences between three of the four scales are not substantial. Only the 14-item measure proposed by Knight and colleagues appears to be suboptimal. The results of this study can be generalised, given the representative and national composition of the study sample.(RH).
Accession Number	CPA-031121209 A
Classmark	P6: EA: QNH: 4C: 3V: 7S
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