BACKGROUND Clinicians and researchers often have to rely on information from caregivers to assess patients with advanced cancer. This study aims to assess the validity (using patients' assessment as the gold standard) of caregiver reports of patient concerns and the roles of caregiver burden and positivity. METHODS A total of 64 advanced cancer patient and informal caregiver dyads were recrui...

OBJECTIVES Anosognosia is the lack of deficit awareness, and it is a common symptom in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). The objective of this study was to assess the relationship between anosognosia and caregiver burden. METHODS This was a cross-sectional, analytical study of patients who were diagnosed with AD and their caregivers. Anosognosia was evaluated using the Experimenter Rati...

BACKGROUND Physical frailty is associated with significant morbidity and mortality in community-dwelling older adults. Burden in informal caregivers of older adults causes significant physical and psychological distress. However, the relationship between these two clinical phenomena has not been extensively studied. This cross-sectional study evaluated the relationship between physical frailty ...

Limited research has explored whether the burden associated with caring for homebound patients varies across racial groups or by relationship status. We examined these variations for this vulnerable population. Patients self-identified informal caregivers and caregiver burden/depression were assessed using the Zarit Caregiver Burden Scale and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression scal...

OBJECTIVE to explain comparatively how economic and family caregiver burden in families with bipolar disorder patients change overtime. METHOD one year follow-up of economic and family caregiver burden was carried out on family caregivers of 190 bipolar, 55 diabetes, hypertension and asthma patients and 659 sick controls in the community. Population average generalized estimating equation was...

background:  to test the psychometric properties of the persian version of zarit burden interview (zbi-12) in the iranian opulation.  methods: after translating and cultural adaptation of the questionnaire into persian, 100 caregiver spouses of iran-iraq war (1980-88) veterans with chronic spinal cord injury who live in the city of mashhad, iran, invited to participate in the study. the persian...

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Using family systems theory as a theoretical framework, we investigated direct and indirect associations between type of disability, caregiver burden, and sibling relationships with structural equation modeling. We recruited 172 families raising typically developing children or a child with a disability. Participants volunteered at meetings and workshops for families of children with disabiliti...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The current study examined the change of caregiver burden and the development of the quality of the partner relation in frontotemporal dementia (FTD). METHODS During a 2-year period, deterioration, behavioural problems, caregiver burden, general psychopathology, quality of life, social support, coping strategies and relationship quality were inspected in 63 FTD caregiver-care ...

BACKGROUND Delirium, a common complication of advanced cancer, may put caregivers at risk for poor mental health outcomes. We looked for a relationship between caregiver-perceived delirium in a patient with advanced cancer and rates of caregiver psychiatric disorders. METHODS Using cross-sectional data from 200 caregivers of patients with cancer with a life expectancy of less than 6 months, w...