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| Coping and its relationship to quality of life in dementia caregivers | | Author(s) | Raman Deep Pattanayak, Renuka Jena, Deepti Vibha |
| Journal title | Dementia: the international journal of social research and practice, vol 10, no 4, November 2011 |
| Pages | pp 499-508 |
| Source | http://dem.sagepub.com/ |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Informal care ; Family care ; Quality of life ; Stress ; Adjustment ; India. |
| Annotation | This study was one of a few that looked at coping and quality of life (QoL) of dementia caregivers in the Indian context. 32 patients with Alzheimer's disease were assessed for their level of cognitive functioning using the Hindi mental state examination and for severity of dementia using clinical dementia ratings. Their key caregivers were assessed using the Coping Checklist and WHO-QoL (BREF) Hindi version. Analyses revealed that education was positively correlated to total coping score, problem-solving, positive distraction, and acceptance. It was negatively correlated with religion and denial. Use of social support as coping was found to be positively correlated with domains of QoL. Problem-solving was seen to have a significant positive correlation with psychological QoL, while denial/blame had significant negative correlation with both physical and psychological QoL. Both coping strategies and QoL were shown to depend on caregiver characteristics rather than the severity of the patient's dementia. |
| Accession Number | CPA-120523004 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6: P6:SJ: F:59: QNH: DR: 7FA |
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