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Carers of people with dementia — their experience of ward rounds
Author(s)	J Bains, C A Vassilas
Journal title	Aging & Mental Health, vol 3, no 2, May 1999
Pages	pp 184-187
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Dementia ; Informal care ; Spouses as carers ; Psychogeriatric units ; Social surveys ; Suffolk.
Annotation	In this study carried out in the Department of Old Age Psychiatry in the West Suffolk Hospital, the authors looked at whether 31 spouse carers of those with dementia experienced more stress than 36 other carers when taken on ward rounds. Interviews were carried out by telephone to the 67 carers, a mean time of 29 weeks after the ward round. Telephone administration of the questionnaire (with prior notice by post of the questionnaire) resulted in a high response rate and was acceptable to the carers. Most found that attending the ward round was a positive experience, although a higher proportion of spouses found this stressful (13/31 or 41.9%) compared to 10/36 (27.8%). Carers needed to know more about the purpose and composition of the ward round in advance. Routine enquiry as to carers' views is important in advance, and using telephone questionnaires was a useful way of gathering this information. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-990715235 A
Classmark	EA: P6: P6:SN: LDM: 3F: 8SU
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