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Caregiver profiles in dementia related to quality of life, depression and perseverance time in the European Actifcare study: the importance of social health.
- Source :
- Aging & Mental Health; Jan2017, Vol. 21 Issue 1, p49-57, 9p, 4 Charts, 2 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Objectives:To identify caregiver profiles of persons with mild to moderate dementia and to investigate differences between identified caregiver profiles, using baseline data of the international prospective cohort study Actifcare. Methods:A latent class analysis was used to discover different caregiver profiles based on disease related characteristics of 453 persons with dementia and their 453 informal caregivers. These profiles were compared with regard to quality of life (CarerQoL score), depressive symptoms (HADS-D score) and perseverance time. Results:A 5-class model was identified, with the best Bayesian Information Criterion value, significant likelihood ratio test (p< 0.001), high entropy score (0.88) and substantive interpretability. The classes could be differentiated on two axes: (i) caregivers' age, relationship with persons with dementia, severity of dementia, and (ii) tendency towards stress and difficulty adapting to stress. Classes showed significant differences with all dependent variables, and were labelled ‘older low strain’, ‘older intermediate strain’, ‘older high strain’, ‘younger low strain’ and ‘younger high strain’. Conclusion:Differences exist between types of caregivers that explain variability in quality of life, depressive symptoms and perseverance time. Our findings may give direction for tailored interventions for caregivers of persons with dementia, which may improve social health and reduce health care costs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- QUALITY of life
PSYCHOLOGY of caregivers
CHI-squared test
COMPARATIVE studies
DEMENTIA
MENTAL depression
HEALTH status indicators
LATENT structure analysis
LOCUS of control
LONGITUDINAL method
NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL tests
CLASSIFICATION of mental disorders
PROBABILITY theory
PSYCHOLOGICAL tests
RESEARCH funding
SURVEYS
T-test (Statistics)
TIME
MATHEMATICAL variables
WELL-being
VISUAL analog scale
CROSS-sectional method
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13607863
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Aging & Mental Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 120794074
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2016.1255716