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The experience of psychological distress in family caregivers of people with dementia: A cross-sectional study
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Purpose: To evaluate the degree of psychological distress in family caregivers of people with
dementia.
Design and Methods: A nonprobabilistic sample of 54 dyads (people with dementia and family
caregivers) was recruited. A sociodemographic questionnaire, the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI),
and the Barthel Index were used for data collection.
Findings: About half of the caregivers had significant levels of psychological distress. Caregivers
showed high scores in some BSI dimensions: somatization, obsessive–compulsion, interpersonal
sensitivity, anxiety, and paranoid ideation.
Practice Implications: Alleviating the caregivers’ distress is likely to have positive effects on
the overall health and capacity to care. Frameworks for providing palliative care to people with
advanced dementia and support the caregivers would enhance the quality of care provided and
may reduce the distress on the caregiver.
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Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Behavioral Symptoms Caregivers Cross-Sectional Studies Dementia Family Female Humans Male Middle Aged Stress, Psychological Young Adult
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Citação
Perspect Psychiatr Care. 2018;54:317–323.
Editora
Wiley