PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Although the Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI) is one of the most extensively used measures in research for caregiver burden, few researchers have examined its factor structure. Furthermore, though the ZBI has also been used in cross-group comparisons of burden, there have not been studies of whether or not it measures burden equally across various groups. Therefore, this study ...

Objective: To determine the relationship between perceived stress and burden among caregivers of stroke survivors residing in Lahore city Pakistan. Methods: This prospective cross-sectional study was conducted at three health care institutes Lahore, Pakistan from October 2021 to March 2022. The inclusion limited providing more than 6 hours per day for least one month duration after discharge ho...

BACKGROUND Caregivers play a major role in the care of patients with dementia and are themselves at higher risk of disease. OBJECTIVES We investigate which factors are associated with caregivers burden of outpatients visiting a memory clinic and how functional autonomy and behavioral and psychological symptoms can influence caregiver burden. METHODS The study population was chosen from outp...

AIM Some elderly patients with incontinence require the care of third parties, known as caregivers. Such care can occur on a daily basis leaving little opportunity for the caregiver to take care of himself/herself. The aims are to assess the association between urinary incontinence in elderly patients and caregiver burden and identify independent factors for caregiver's burden in the city of Sa...

OBJECTIVE To examine the dimensionality of the Zarit Burden Interview in a sample of carers of adults with acquired brain injury. DESIGN A cross-sectional UK survey using postal questionnaires. PARTICIPANTS A sample of 222 carers; 43 men (19.4%) and 179 women (80.6%); mean age 54 years. Types of brain injury included traumatic brain injury (49.5%), stroke (25.9%), brain infection (17.3%), h...

BACKGROUND The primary purpose of this study was to investigate adult-child caregiver burden in heart failure (HF) patients. Secondary purpose of the study was to identify the possible influencing factors for caregiver burden and depressive symptoms in a young adult-child caregiver group. METHODS A total of 138 adult-child caregivers and 138 patients with HF participated in this study. Caregi...

Background: Caring for cancer patients affects both the care burden and quality of life caregivers. This study was conducted to determine load, caregivers who influencing factors.Materials Methods: descriptive research which used Questionnaire Form, Caregiver Quality Life Index-Cancer Scale Zarit Burden Scale.160 agreed participate in composed sample. In analysis data, statistics (number, perce...

BACKGROUND Low and middle income countries face many challenges in meeting their populations' mental health care needs. Though family caregiving is crucial to the management of severe mental health disabilities, such as schizophrenia, the economic costs borne by family caregivers often go unnoticed. In this study, we estimated the household economic costs of schizophrenia and quality of life of...