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Population Characteristics and Needs of Informal Caregivers Associated With the Risk of Perceiving a High Burden: A Cross-Sectional Study
This study explored the population characteristics and needs of informal caregivers reporting a low or high burden. A cross-sectional study was conducted in the Netherlands to explore the associations between the characteristics and needs of informal caregivers and the burden they perceive and to as...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5977419/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29808748 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0046958018775570 |
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author | Prevo, Lotte Hajema, KlaasJan Linssen, Evelyne Kremers, Stef Crutzen, Rik Schneider, Francine |
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description | This study explored the population characteristics and needs of informal caregivers reporting a low or high burden. A cross-sectional study was conducted in the Netherlands to explore the associations between the characteristics and needs of informal caregivers and the burden they perceive and to assess the variance in perceived burdens that is explained by these variables. Three thousand sixty-seven adult informal caregivers and 1936 senior informal caregivers participated, almost 15% of whom perceived a high burden. Particularly caregivers in the 40 to 54 age group perceived a high burden, while caregivers with an intermediate educational level reported a low burden. Higher burden was also reported by caregivers who spent more time on the care provision tasks, had a high level of depressive symptoms, or reported loneliness. The explored variables seem to be important to explain caregiver burden. Longitudinal research is warranted to establish the causal directions of these associations. |
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spelling | pubmed-59774192018-06-05 Population Characteristics and Needs of Informal Caregivers Associated With the Risk of Perceiving a High Burden: A Cross-Sectional Study Prevo, Lotte Hajema, KlaasJan Linssen, Evelyne Kremers, Stef Crutzen, Rik Schneider, Francine Inquiry Pilot Study This study explored the population characteristics and needs of informal caregivers reporting a low or high burden. A cross-sectional study was conducted in the Netherlands to explore the associations between the characteristics and needs of informal caregivers and the burden they perceive and to assess the variance in perceived burdens that is explained by these variables. Three thousand sixty-seven adult informal caregivers and 1936 senior informal caregivers participated, almost 15% of whom perceived a high burden. Particularly caregivers in the 40 to 54 age group perceived a high burden, while caregivers with an intermediate educational level reported a low burden. Higher burden was also reported by caregivers who spent more time on the care provision tasks, had a high level of depressive symptoms, or reported loneliness. The explored variables seem to be important to explain caregiver burden. Longitudinal research is warranted to establish the causal directions of these associations. SAGE Publications 2018-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5977419/ /pubmed/29808748 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0046958018775570 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Pilot Study Prevo, Lotte Hajema, KlaasJan Linssen, Evelyne Kremers, Stef Crutzen, Rik Schneider, Francine Population Characteristics and Needs of Informal Caregivers Associated With the Risk of Perceiving a High Burden: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title | Population Characteristics and Needs of Informal Caregivers Associated With the Risk of Perceiving a High Burden: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_full | Population Characteristics and Needs of Informal Caregivers Associated With the Risk of Perceiving a High Burden: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_fullStr | Population Characteristics and Needs of Informal Caregivers Associated With the Risk of Perceiving a High Burden: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Population Characteristics and Needs of Informal Caregivers Associated With the Risk of Perceiving a High Burden: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_short | Population Characteristics and Needs of Informal Caregivers Associated With the Risk of Perceiving a High Burden: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_sort | population characteristics and needs of informal caregivers associated with the risk of perceiving a high burden: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Pilot Study |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5977419/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29808748 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0046958018775570 |
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