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Caregiver Burden: Caregiving Workshops Have a Positive Impact on Those Caring for Individuals With Dementia in Arkansas
Millions of Americans live with dementia. Caregivers of this population provide countless hours of multifaceted, complex care that frequently cause unrelenting stress which can result in immense burden. However, it is not fully understood what efforts can be made to reduce the stress among caregiver...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8205323/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34179446 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23743735211018085 |
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author | McAtee, Robin E. Spradley, Laura Tobey, Leah Thomasson, Whitney Azhar, Gohar Mercado, Cynthia |
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description | Millions of Americans live with dementia. Caregivers of this population provide countless hours of multifaceted, complex care that frequently cause unrelenting stress which can result in immense burden. However, it is not fully understood what efforts can be made to reduce the stress among caregivers of persons with dementia (PWD). Therefore, the aim of this pretest–posttest designed study was to evaluate changes in caregiver burden after providing an educational intervention to those caring for PWD in Arkansas. Forty-one participants completed the Zarit Caregiver Burden Scale before and after attending a 4-hour dementia-focused caregiving workshop. The analysis of the means, standard deviations, and paired t tests showed that there was an increase in the confidence and competence in caring for PWD 30 to 45 days after attending the workshop. Health care providers need to understand both the vital role caregivers provide in managing a PWD and the importance of the caregiver receiving education about their role as a caregiver. Utilizing caregiver educational programs is a first step. |
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spelling | pubmed-82053232021-06-25 Caregiver Burden: Caregiving Workshops Have a Positive Impact on Those Caring for Individuals With Dementia in Arkansas McAtee, Robin E. Spradley, Laura Tobey, Leah Thomasson, Whitney Azhar, Gohar Mercado, Cynthia J Patient Exp Research Article Millions of Americans live with dementia. Caregivers of this population provide countless hours of multifaceted, complex care that frequently cause unrelenting stress which can result in immense burden. However, it is not fully understood what efforts can be made to reduce the stress among caregivers of persons with dementia (PWD). Therefore, the aim of this pretest–posttest designed study was to evaluate changes in caregiver burden after providing an educational intervention to those caring for PWD in Arkansas. Forty-one participants completed the Zarit Caregiver Burden Scale before and after attending a 4-hour dementia-focused caregiving workshop. The analysis of the means, standard deviations, and paired t tests showed that there was an increase in the confidence and competence in caring for PWD 30 to 45 days after attending the workshop. Health care providers need to understand both the vital role caregivers provide in managing a PWD and the importance of the caregiver receiving education about their role as a caregiver. Utilizing caregiver educational programs is a first step. SAGE Publications 2021-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8205323/ /pubmed/34179446 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23743735211018085 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Research Article McAtee, Robin E. Spradley, Laura Tobey, Leah Thomasson, Whitney Azhar, Gohar Mercado, Cynthia Caregiver Burden: Caregiving Workshops Have a Positive Impact on Those Caring for Individuals With Dementia in Arkansas |
title | Caregiver Burden: Caregiving Workshops Have a Positive Impact on
Those Caring for Individuals With Dementia in Arkansas |
title_full | Caregiver Burden: Caregiving Workshops Have a Positive Impact on
Those Caring for Individuals With Dementia in Arkansas |
title_fullStr | Caregiver Burden: Caregiving Workshops Have a Positive Impact on
Those Caring for Individuals With Dementia in Arkansas |
title_full_unstemmed | Caregiver Burden: Caregiving Workshops Have a Positive Impact on
Those Caring for Individuals With Dementia in Arkansas |
title_short | Caregiver Burden: Caregiving Workshops Have a Positive Impact on
Those Caring for Individuals With Dementia in Arkansas |
title_sort | caregiver burden: caregiving workshops have a positive impact on
those caring for individuals with dementia in arkansas |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8205323/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34179446 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23743735211018085 |
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