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| Does depression prior to caregiving increase vulnerability to depressive symptoms among caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease? | | Author(s) | M M Neundorfer, M J McClendon, K A Smyth |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 10, no 6, November 2006 |
| Pages | pp 606-615 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Informal care ; Depression ; Symptoms ; Stress ; At risk ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Based on the vulnerability model of depression, this study tested the hypothesis that caregivers who have previously had depression are more likely to be depressed during caregiving than caregivers without previous depression. It was further hypothesised that an interaction effect in which caregivers with previous depression would be affected more by care-recipient dependency in activities of daily living (ADLs) and care-recipient depressive symptoms than those without previous depression. In a sample of 111 caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in an additive regression model, neither "previous depressive symptoms" nor the clinically more serious "previous depressive syndrome" was related to depressive symptoms during caregiving. In an interaction model for caregivers with either of these conditions, the greater the care-recipient dependencies in instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), the greater were the depressive symptoms during caregiving. For caregivers with a "previous depressive syndrome", however, the greater the IADL dependency, the fewer were the depressive symptoms during caregiving. This unexpected finding suggests that caregivers with a history of clinically significant depression are not necessarily more prone to depressive symptoms when caregiving responsibilities, at least for instrumental activities, are high. This result questions the vulnerability model of depression when applied to older caregivers. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-061211209 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6: ENR: CT: QNH: CA3: 4C: 7T |
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