Pain-attributed care task difficulty among dementia caregivers with chronic pain.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Chronic pain is highly prevalent among dementia family caregivers (henceforth "caregivers"). We used a nationwide sample of caregivers with chronic pain to identify the extent to which caregivers attribute pain to any difficulty they have with caregiving.

Methods

Caregivers (N = 269) reported if they experienced difficulty performing ten individual care tasks and if 'yes', how much of the difficulty they attributed to pain (0 = not a reason for my difficulty, 10 = the biggest reason for my difficulty). We ran ANOVA models to determine between-group differences in pain-attributed difficulty with care tasks.

Results

When asked about the extent to which pain contributed to the difficulty helping care recipients with a given care task, caregivers' aver

SUBMITTER: Turner SG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12627032 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature