Kingston Caregiver Stress Scale (KCSS) Greek Validation on Dementia Caregiver Sample

Dementia and caregiver stress.

Validation of the Caregiver Guilt Questionnaire (CGQ) in a sample of British dementia caregivers.

BACKGROUND Depression is well documented as a key outcome variable for dementia caregivers; however, guilt has been under-researched, which may be in part due to the lack of an appropriate measure. The Caregiver Guilt Questionnaire (CGQ) was originally developed and piloted with a Spanish population but has not yet been tested in an English-speaking population. METHODS A cross-sectional posta...

Living with dementia: caregiver perspectives.

About four million Americans currently live with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or related forms of dementia. Because the disease process impairs language, insight, and judgment, family members become "caregivers." These caregivers, either in part or in full, often make decisions on patients' behalf. This Issue Brief summarizes a series of studies that describe how caregivers make decisions for AD pa...

Caregiver burden and needs in frontotemporal dementia.

BACKGROUND It is well known that burden among caregivers of patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is high. However, little is known about the specific problems, the factors that contribute to caregiver burden, and the needs of the FTD caregivers-particularly those needs that are accessible by external support strategies. OBJECTIVE We developed a standardized questionnaire that addressed...

The development and validation of an instrument to assess caregiver burden in cerebral palsy: Caregiver Difficulties Scale.

OBJECTIVES To develop a valid and reliable instrument to assess caregiver burden in caregivers of children with cerebral palsy (CP). METHODS A self-administered, multidimensional instrument--Caregiver Difficulties Scale (CDS)--was developed using a combined qualitative-quantitative approach. Items for the preliminary draft were selected from existing caregiver assessment instruments by consen...