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Alzheimer's disease
— usefulness of the Family Strain Questionnaire and the Screen for Caregiver Burden in the study of caregiving-related problems | | Author(s) | Silvia Rossi Ferrario, Peter Vitaliano, Anna Maria Zotti |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 18, no 12, December 2003 |
| Pages | pp 1110-1114 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Family care ; Stress ; Needs [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Italy. |
| Annotation | In Italy caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) have the right to receive economic and psychosocial aid. However, to distribute such aid, caregivers' needs must be assessed properly. The authors attempt to integrate two measures - the Family Strain Questionnaire (FSQ), and the Screen for Caregiver Burden (SCB) - in order to evaluate caregiver needs that are both general and specific to AD. The FSQ and SCB were administered to 91 primary caregivers of home-based patients with AD. Caregivers were also asked to rate the activities of daily living (ADLs) of their care recipients, the latter of which were administered by the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE). The FSQ and SCB provide different, but complementary assessments of the needs of AD caregivers. The SCB identifies situations that are potentially stressful to AD caregivers, and the FSQ identifies the needs of specific caregivers (e.g. men vs women, spouses vs children, unemployed vs employed). Together these measures may help government agencies to assess caregiver needs beyond those assessed by each individual measure. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040301211 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6:SJ: QNH: IK: 4C: 76V |
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