Validation of a Measure of Role Overload and Gains for End-of-Life Dementia Caregivers.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Caregiving stress process models suggest that heterogeneous contexts differentially contribute to caregivers' experiences of role overload and gains. End-of-life (EOL) caregivers, especially EOL dementia caregivers, facing unique challenges and care tasks, may experience role overload and gains in different ways than other caregivers. This study evaluates measurement invariance of role overload and gains between EOL caregivers and non-EOL caregivers and between EOL dementia and EOL non-dementia caregivers.

Methods

We utilized role gains and overload data from 1,859 family caregivers who participated in Round 7 of the National Study of Caregiving. We ran confirmatory factor analyses to investigate the factorial structure across all caregivers and then examined the

SUBMITTER: Turner SG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10010474 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature