Quality of family relationships and outcomes of dementia: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the association between the quality of relationship between a person with dementia and their family carer and outcomes for the person with dementia.

Design

Systematic review.

Eligibility criteria

Cohort studies of people with clinically diagnosed dementia and their main carers. Exposures of interest were any elements of relationship quality, for example, attachment style, expressed emotion and coping style. Our primary outcome was institutionalisation, and secondary outcomes were hospitalisation, death, quality of life and behavioural and psychiatric symptoms of dementia ('challenging behaviour').

Data sources

MEDLINE, Embase, Web of Science, PsycInfo, the Cochrane Library and Opengrey were searched from inception to May 2017.

Study ap

SUBMITTER: Edwards HB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5780722 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature