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| The sense of coherence, burden and depressive symptoms in informal caregivers during the first month after stroke | | Author(s) | Neale R Chumbler, Maude Rittman, Merieke Van Puymbroeck |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 19, no 10, October 2004 |
| Pages | pp 944-953 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Stroke ; Discharged patients ; Informal care ; Well being ; Stress ; Depression ; Symptoms ; United States of America ; Puerto Rico. |
| Annotation | Individuals with a strong sense of coherence (SOC), which considers one's ability to respond to stressors by the appropriate use of adaptive coping resources, can avoid breakdown when confronted with stress. 104 ethnically diverse US veterans who were hospitalised after experiencing an acute stroke and their informal caregivers were enrolled in this study prior to discharge. One month after being discharged from one of five Veterans Affairs Medical Centers in Florida and Puerto Rico, comprehensive data were collected and analysed. Multiple regression analyses showed that greater SOC was associated with both lower burden and fewer depressive symptoms. Higher caregiver burden, in turn, was significantly associated with more depressive symptoms. However, when depressive symptoms were regressed on both SOC and burden jointly, the previously significant association between burden amd depressive symptoms was no longer significant and SOC was still strongly associated with fewer depressive symptoms. Determining factors that may lessen burden and depressive symptoms for caregivers of stroke survivors during the transition period after discharge home are imperative for developing successful interventions. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-041209205 A |
| Classmark | CQA: LFD: P6: D:F:5HH: QNH: ENR: CT: 7T: 7VL |
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