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The impact of new demands for assistance on caregiver depression
— tests using an inception cohort | | Author(s) | Charles W Given, Barbara A Given, Manfred Stommel |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 39, no 1, February 1999 |
| Pages | pp 76-85 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Family care ; Aftercare ; Discharged patients ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Family caregivers of patients facing new demands for assistance following hospital discharge were more likely to experience increased levels of depression in the following 6 months compared with caregivers facing similar overall demands but few new demands for assistance after hospital discharge. New demands for assistance had a significant independent effect on the levels of depression and were independent of family relationship (spouse vs non-spouse) and caregiver gender. These findings provide insight into theories of caregiver stress, begin to specify the interaction of time after the onset of a stressful event and caregivers' subsequent reactions, and suggest which caregivers may require some assistance with discharged patients. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990331227 A |
| Classmark | ENR: P6:SJ: LN: LFD: 4C: 7T |
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