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| Stress of caregivers of dementia patients in the Singapore Chinese family | | Author(s) | Kua Ee Heok, Tan Swee Li |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 12, no 4,, April 1997 |
| Pages | pp 466-469 |
| Keywords | Stress ; Family care ; Dementia ; Chinese people ; Social surveys ; Singapore. |
| Annotation | In a study of 50 family caregivers of elderly Chinese patients with dementia in Singapore, 28 (56%) scored five points or more on the 28-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). The GHQ scores correlated significantly with duration of care; presence of delusion, hallucination, depression, insomnia, incontinence and agitation; and the total score of the Behavioural Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease Rating Scale. On multiple regression analysis, the only variables to achieve a significant relationship with the GHQ scores were duration of care, depression and the total behavioural score. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970807234 A |
| Classmark | QNH: P6:SJ: EA: TKL: 3F: 7XD |
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