Avoidant Coping and Poor Sleep Efficiency in Dementia Caregivers

Gratitude and coping among familial caregivers of persons with dementia.

OBJECTIVES Gratitude is widely perceived as a key factor to psychological well-being by different cultures and religions. The relationship between gratitude and coping in the context of familial dementia caregiving has yet to be investigated. DESIGN This study is the first to examine the associations among gratitude, coping strategies, psychological resources and psychological distress using ...

The utilization and efficiency of the informal caregivers' coping strategies.

This study highlights the coping strategies used by informal caregivers whose husbands live with cancer. It also aims at measuring the efficiency of the selected strategies. The convenience sample was composed of 30 informal caregivers. The results indicate that informal caregivers primarily use support, optimism, independence, and facing of the situation. In general, the categories of coping s...

Positive Affect and Sleep in Spousal Alzheimer Caregivers: A Longitudinal Study Short title: Positive Affect and Sleep in Dementia Caregivers

Cognitive profile and determinants of poor cognition in people without dementia in Parkinson’s disease

Background: The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) has been recommended as a cognitive screening tool for clinical practice and research in Parkinson’s disease (PD), yet no normative data have been published for MoCA in PD without dementia.     Methods: We undertook a pooled secondary analysis of data from two studies (one cross-sectional design and one clinical trial) conducted in the East ...

Caregiver burden, health-related quality of life and coping in dementia caregivers: a comparison of frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is the second most prevalent dementia after Alzheimer's disease (AD). We compared 29 FTD and 90 AD caregivers with respect to burden, health-related quality of life (HQoL) and coping. FTD caregivers were more burdened than AD caregivers, and caregivers of patients who were demented for shorter duration had lower HQoL. We furthermore compared the 29 FTD caregivers w...