The role of hyperarousal for understanding the associations between sleep problems and emotional symptoms in family caregivers of people with dementia. A network analysis approach.

ABSTRACT: Caregiving for a family member with dementia is a stressful situation that has been associated with symptoms of depression, anxiety, and insomnia. Several models have highlighted the role of hyperarousal for understanding sleep disorders; however, there is little evidence about how insomnia, depression, and anxiety are linked together. Network analysis could help to explore the mechanisms underlying the associations between these disorders. A total of 368 community-dwelling family caregivers of a person with dementia took part in the study. The depression-anxiety-sleep symptoms network was composed of 26 items using the R package qgraph to estimate and visualise the network. The results showed that the strongest symptoms in the network were shakiness, tension, restlessness, nervousness, an

SUBMITTER: Jimenez-Gonzalo L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11744234 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature