Factors Associated with Caregiver Burden in Dementia: 1-Year Follow-Up Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Dementia symptoms (cognitive function, daily-living function, and neuropsychiatric symptoms) become more serious over time, which is likely to increase caregiver burden. The aim of this study is to investigate which dementia-related symptoms, and how the progression of these symptoms, have influenced caregiver burden during a 1-year follow-up assessment.

Methods

A total of 110 patients with dementia were assessed for their cognitive function, daily-living function, and neuropsychiatric symptoms. Caregivers were assessed for their caregiver burden. Bivariate analyses were conducted between caregiver burden and dementia patients' symptoms, in order to examine which particular symptoms were significantly associated with caregiver burden at the baseline. A multiple reg

SUBMITTER: Shim SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4701684 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature