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| Determinants of burden in those who care for someone with dementia | | Author(s) | P Campbell, J Wright, J Oyebode |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 23, no 10, October 2008 |
| Pages | pp 1078-1085 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Stress ; Dementia ; Cross sectional surveys ; Midlands [England]. |
| Annotation | Caregiver burden is a key measure in caregiver research and is frequently used as a baseline measure in intervention studies. This cross-sectional study investigated factors associated with caregiver burden using a multiple regression analysis to ascertain the predictive quality of these factors of caregiver burden. It used validated measures of a patient's cognitive ability, ability to carry out day-to-day tasks and behavioural and psychological symptoms. Caregiver outcomes used were caregiver burden, relationship quality, caregiver confidence, experience of adverse life events, neuroticism, age and gender. Interviews and questionnaires were carried out on 74 patients diagnosed with dementia and their main caregivers from the Midlands. Multiple regression analysis showed that caregiver overload, carer-patient relationship quality, the experience of adverse life events, caregiver gender, caregivers' level of neuroticism, caregiver role captivity and the level of caregiver confidence accounted for more than 80% of the variance in caregiver burden. These results confirm previous correlation research on caregiver burden. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090605210 A |
| Classmark | P6: QNH: EA: 3KB: 82X |
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