Impact of Dementia-Related Behavioral Symptoms on Healthcare Resource Use and Caregiver Burden: Real-World Data from Europe and the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dementia is commonly accompanied by neurobehavioral symptoms; however, the relationship between such symptoms and health-related outcomes is unclear.

Objective

To investigate the impact of specific neurobehavioral symptoms in dementia on healthcare resource use (HCRU), patient quality of life (QoL), and caregiver burden.

Methods

Data were taken from the 2015/16 Adelphi Real World Dementia Disease Specific Programme™, a point-in-time survey of physicians and their consulting dementia patients. Multiple regression analyses were used to examine associations between patient symptom groups and health-related outcomes.

Results

Each patient symptom group of interest (patients with agitation/aggression and related symptoms [AARS] with psychosis, patients wit

SUBMITTER: Chekani F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8293640 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature