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| Primary stressors and depressive symptoms in caregivers of dementia patients | | Author(s) | D Gallagher-Thompson, D V Powers |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 1, no 3, August 1997 |
| Pages | pp 248-255 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Family care ; Stress ; Depression ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Pearlin et al (1990) propose a model for examining the wellbeing of caregivers of dementia patients. This paper focuses on one part of this model, examining the relationship between primary stressors and mental health, particularly depression, in a cross-sectional sample of 91 caregivers of dementia patients in California, United States (US). The primary stressors examined were: patient cognitive status, objective burden, subjective burden, and generalised perceived stress. Linear and non-linear relationships between patient cognitive status and caregiver depression were considered. Some evidence was found for a non-linear relationship between patient cognitive status and caregiver depression, but only the interaction between subjective caregiver burden and generalised perceived stress was found to significantly predict caregiver depression, when all variables were considered. Implications for including global as well as caregiver-specific measures of subjective burden in models of caregiver well-being are discussed. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980325231 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6:SJ: QNH: ENR: 7T |
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