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Caregiver burden and depressive symptoms
— analysis of common outcomes in caregivers of elderly patients | | Author(s) | Paula R Sherwood, Charles W Given, Barbara A Given |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 17, no 2, April 2005 |
| Pages | pp 125-147 |
| Source | http://www.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Family care ; Stress ; Depression ; Symptoms ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Despite widespread use of caregiver burden and depressive symptoms in caregiving research, the relationship between these two concepts and the way in which burden and depressive symptoms are affected are not clear. The authors used structural equation modelling with an inception cohort of 488 family caregivers to examine the relationship between care recipients' mental and functional status and caregivers' burden and depressive symptoms. Care recipients' mental and functional status and recency of care demands predicted caregiver burden. In turn, burden was nearly significant in predicting depressive symptoms. Care recipients' mental status and recency of care demand had a near significant indirect effect on caregiver depressive symptoms. There were no significant direct paths between care recipients' mental status, functional status, recency of care demands and caregivers' depressive symptoms. Health care practitioners should assist caregivers with new care demands stemming from care recipients' mental and functional status to decrease burden; and they should monitor caregivers with higher levels of burden for the development of depressive symptoms. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050418209 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: QNH: ENR: CT: 49: 7T |
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