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| Gender of demented patients and specific family relationship of caregiver to patients influence mental fatigue and burdens on relatives as caregivers | | Author(s) | Itsugi Nagatomo, Yasuaki Akasaki, Masahiro Uchida |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 14, no 8, August 1999 |
| Pages | pp 618-625 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Family relationships ; Stress ; Family care ; Social surveys ; Japan. |
| Annotation | Cognitive function, activities of daily living (ADLs) and behaviour of 62 Japanese demented patients living at home were rated using the Hasegawa scale, the ADL scale and the dementia behaviour disturbance scale (DBD) scale. Caregiver's burden and mental fatigue were rated using a burden scale and a general health questionnaire (GHQ). Caregiver burden correlated negatively with the Hasegawa score and positively with the GHQ and DBD scores. Caregiver burden, GHQ, and DBD for male patients were significantly higher than for females. Little difference was evident for caregiver burden scale of patient DBD between spouses and offspring as caregiver, but the GHQ score for spouses was significantly worse than for offspring. The difficulty of caregivers in supporting the daily life of demented family members correlated with patients' cognitive impairment, abnormal behaviour and ADL status, and caregivers' difficulty resulted in mental fatigue. Caregivers' relative isolation from friends, attributable to their caregiving responsibility, did not correlate with the demented person's cognitive impairment or ADL status. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990825285 A |
| Classmark | EA: DS:SJ: QNH: P6:SJ: 3F: 7DT |
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