Interaction of caregiver-expressed emotions and neuropsychiatric symptoms in persons with dementia: a longitudinal cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) have a major impact in persons with dementia (PwD). The interaction between the caregiver and the person with dementia may be related to the emergence of NPS. The concept of expressed emotion (EE) is used to capture this dyadic interaction. The aim of the present study is to examine longitudinally the association between EE in caregivers and NPS in PwD living at home.

Design

A longitudinal cohort study with 2 years of follow-up.

Setting

PwD and their informal caregivers living at home in the south of the Netherlands.

Participants

112 dyads of PwD and their caregivers from the MAAstricht Study of BEhavior in Dementia.

Main outcome measures

EE was measured at baseline with the Five-Minute Speech Sample and was use

SUBMITTER: Tan EY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8480002 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature