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| Validation of the Caregiver Guilt Questionnaire (CGQ) in a sample of British dementia caregivers | | Author(s) | Louise Roach, Ken Laidlaw, David Gillanders, Kathryn Quinn |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 25, no 12, December 2013 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, December 2013 |
| Pages | pp 2001-2010 |
| Source | www.journals.cambridge.org |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Family care ; Attitude ; Emotions ; Questionnaires ; Evaluation ; Spain ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | Depression is well documented as a key outcome variable for dementia caregivers. However guilt has been under-researched, which may be in part due to the lack of an appropriate measure. The Caregiver Guilt Questionnaire (CGQ) was originally developed and piloted with a Spanish population but has not yet been tested in an English-speaking population. In the present study a cross-sectional postal survey was undertaken with a sample of 221 dementia caregivers in the UK, as part of a larger study of dementia caregiver outcome measures. The five-factor structure identified for the CGQ in the Spanish sample was replicated in this study. The five factors, `guilt about doing wrong by the care recipient,' `guilt about failing to meet the challenges of caregiving,' `guilt over experience of negative emotions in relation to caregiving,' `guilt about self-care,' and `guilt about neglecting other relatives' accounted for 60% of the variance. Internal consistencies for the whole scale and factors were acceptable, and convergent validity was established with the Sarit Burden Interview guilt factor. A higher score on the CGQ was associated with a higher score on the Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale (CES-D) and a new cut-off score of 22 was established, which predicted a clinical score on the CES-D with 80.0% sensitivity and 61.5% specificity. The replication of the five-factor structure suggests that these are relevant themes within the feelings of guilt to both Hispanic and British dementia caregivers. The CGQ has been demonstrated to be a valid measure for use with British dementia caregivers and is likely to be of use in clinical and research settings. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150619225 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6:SJ: DP: DL: 3DA: 4C: 76S: 8 |
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