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| The relative stress scale, a useful instrument to identify various aspects of carer burden in dementia? | | Author(s) | Ingun Ulstein, Torgeir Bruun Wyller, Knut Engedal |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 22, no 1, January 2007 |
| Pages | pp 61-67 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Informal care ; Stress ; Behaviour disorders ; Evaluation ; Norway. |
| Annotation | Carer and patient characteristics associated with various aspects of burden of care were identified. 196 Norwegian carers, each caring for a patient with dementia, were rated by the Relative Stress Scale (RSS). Patients were assessed with the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), the Disability in Assessment for Dementia (DAD) and the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI). Factor analysis of the RSS resulted in three subgroups: emotional distress, social distress and negative feelings. The total NPI score contributed to the explanation of the RSS total score and the three RSS subgroup scores with an explanatory power of 37% for total RSS, 34% for emotional distress, 27% for social distress, and 20% for negative feelings. In multiple regression analysis, total NPI, DAD%, and the carer being a wife and hours spent caring per week contributed to the explanation of total RSS with an explanatory power of 48%. Total NPI, the carer being a female and the hours spent caring, explained 38% of the variance in emotional distress. Total NPI, the DAD% score, contact with the patient on a daily basis and the hours spent caring, explained social distress (49%). Negative feelings were associated with total NPL, younger patients and the carer being a wife (27%). The RSS thus offers an opportunity to differentiate between different patterns of distress. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070131218 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6: QNH: EP: 4C: 76N |
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