Finding fault: Criticism as a care management strategy and its impact on outcomes for dementia caregivers.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Despite a large literature on the stress process, little attention has focused on how caregivers for persons living with dementia (PLWDs) provide care and how this may impact care outcomes. Criticism is a management strategy caregivers may use to respond to behavioral symptoms. We consider whether criticism is associated with caregivers' mental health and service utilization. METHODS:Data are drawn from the Advancing Caregiver Training intervention study including 256 informal caregivers living with a PLWD. In multiple linear regressions controlling for caregivers' demographics and PLWDs' clinical factors, we consider criticism (criticism subscale of the Dementia Management Strategies Scale) as a predictor of caregiver burden, depressive symptoms, desire to institutionalize the

SUBMITTER: Leggett AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6420398 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature