Can I read Gender of Demented Patients and Specific Family Relationship of Caregiver to Patients Influence Mental Fatigue and Burdens on Relatives as Caregivers on EtoBox?

Gender of Demented Patients and Specific Family Relationship of Caregiver to Patients Influence Mental Fatigue and Burdens on Relatives as Caregivers by Itsugi Nagatomo; Yasuaki Akasaki; Masahiro Uchida; Masataka Tominaga; Wataru Hashiguchi; Morikuni Takigawa is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Gender of Demented Patients and Specific Family Relationship of Caregiver to Patients Influence Mental Fatigue and Burdens on Relatives as Caregivers about?

Objectives. To survey the burden and psychological problems of family caregivers of demented people. Design. All scores were compared according to gender of the demented patients and which family members were the caregivers. Setting. Outpatients clinic at the university hospital and the day service system for the elderly. Patients. Sixty-two demented patients living at home and family members acting as caregivers. Measures. Cognitive function, activities of daily living (ADL) and behaviour of demented patients were rated using the Hasegawa scale, the ADL scale and the dementia behaviour disturbance (DBD) scale. Caregiver's burden and mental fatigue were rated using a burden scale and a general health questionnaire (GHQ). Results. Caregiver burden correlated negatively with the Hasegawa score and positively with the GHQ and DBD scores. Caregiver burden, GHQ and DBD for male patients were signi®cantly higher than for females. Little dierence was evident for caregiver burden scale or patient DBD between spouses and ospring as caregiver, but the GHQ score for spouses was signi®cantly worse than that for ospring. Conclusions. The diculty of caregivers in supporting the daily life of dem

Who reads Gender of Demented Patients and Specific Family Relationship of Caregiver to Patients Influence Mental Fatigue and Burdens on Relatives as Caregivers?

Author

Itsugi Nagatomo; Yasuaki Akasaki; Masahiro Uchida; Masataka Tominaga; Wataru Hashiguchi; Morikuni Takigawa

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley; Research Square (ISSN 0885-6230)

Published

1999

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)