Burden of informal care in stroke survivors and its determinants: a prospective observational study in an Asian setting.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Informal caregiving is an integral part of post-stroke recovery with strenuous caregiving demands often resulting in caregiving burden, threatening sustainability of caregiving and potentially impacting stroke survivor's outcomes. Our study aimed to examine and quantify objective and subjective informal care burden after stroke; and to explore the factors associated with informal care burden in Singapore.

Methods

Stroke patients and their informal caregivers were recruited from all five tertiary hospitals in Singapore from December 2010 to September 2013. Informal care comprised of assistance provided by informal caregivers with any of the activities of daily living. Informal care burden was measured by patients' likelihood of requiring informal care, hours of inf

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8547090 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature