There are scant data documenting the relationship between caregiver strain and suicidal behavior among youth. This study includes data from the caregivers of 1,854 youth who received services through the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program. Caregiver strain, family functioning, and youth functional impairment were assessed with the Caregiver St...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease in the world. Most AD patients become dependent on their relatives, i.e. family caregivers. Providing care to a person with AD influences caregiver's life and leads to feelings of grief, which often precede caregiver depression. The purpose of the article was to evaluate the Meuser and Marwit Caregiver Grief Inventory (MM-...

Families of chronic mentally ill person experience a perception of burden due to the loss of ability that occurs in their patients. Burden is the negative effect on the caregiver. Objective burden refers to the negative outcomes in family routines and subjective burden refers to the emotional distress experienced by the caregiver. Perception of burden and difficulties of giving care may cause i...

Stroke remains a leading cause of serious long-term disability, with most stroke survivors returning home under the care of family members who are often unprepared for the caregiving role and lack training from healthcare providers. As a result, many stroke family caregivers experience burden, depressive symptoms, and reduced health-related quality of life. Aside from these individual issues, c...

BACKGROUND Among cognitively intact patients, self- and caregiver report of patient pain has been associated with worse psychological health for both the patient and caregiver. Little existing research examines factors associated with patient self-report of pain and caregiver report of patient pain among community-dwelling persons with dementia. OBJECTIVE To identify patient and caregiver fac...

Stroke remains a leading cause of serious long-term disability, with most stroke survivors returning home under the care of family members who are often unprepared for the caregiving role and lack training from healthcare providers. As a result, many stroke family caregivers experience burden, depressive symptoms, and reduced health-related quality of life. Aside from these individual issues, c...

Family caregivers have enormous communication responsibilities tied to caregiving, such as sharing the patient's medical history with providers, relaying diagnosis and prognosis to other family members, and making decisions about care with the patient. While caregiver stress and burden has been widely documented in the caregiving literature, little is known about how communication burden, real ...