Health self-perception by dementia family caregivers: sociodemographic and clinical factors
Caring for a demented family member has been associated with burden. Studies concerning health self-perception of family caregivers are still scarce. OBJECTIVE: To investigate caregivers perceived health and to look into relationships with patients and caregivers' sociodemographic and clinical...
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| author | Letice Ericeira Valente Annibal Truzzi Wanderson F. Souza Gilberto Sousa Alves Carlos Eduardo de Oliveira Alves Felipe Kenji Sudo Maria Elisa O. Lanna Denise Madeira Moreira Eliasz Engelhardt Jerson Laks |
| author_facet | Letice Ericeira Valente Annibal Truzzi Wanderson F. Souza Gilberto Sousa Alves Carlos Eduardo de Oliveira Alves Felipe Kenji Sudo Maria Elisa O. Lanna Denise Madeira Moreira Eliasz Engelhardt Jerson Laks |
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| description | Caring for a demented family member has been associated with burden. Studies concerning health self-perception of family caregivers are still scarce. OBJECTIVE: To investigate caregivers perceived health and to look into relationships with patients and caregivers' sociodemographic and clinical data. METHOD: Dyads of dementia outpatients and family caregivers (n=137) were assessed with Mini Mental State Examination, Functional Activities Questionnaire, Neuropsychiatric Inventory and Clinical Dementia Rating. Caregivers answered Sociodemographic Questionnaire, Beck Depression and Anxiety Inventories, Zarit Burden Interview and Maslach Burnout Inventory. RESULTS: Caregivers poor perceived health was associated with emotional exhaustion, burden, depression and anxiety. Logistic regression analyses revealed caregivers' age, anxiety and physical problem as the main predictors of health self-perception. CONCLUSION: Aged family caregivers with anxiety who also report physical problem characterize a group at risk for poor self-perceived health. Evaluation of health self-perception may be useful for designing interventions to improve anxiety and physical health. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-1d3cd0e04e7645d4a6d03626063721bf2025-08-20T02:01:16ZengThieme Revinter PublicaçõesArquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria1678-42272011-10-0169573974410.1590/S0004-282X2011000600003S0004-282X2011000600003Health self-perception by dementia family caregivers: sociodemographic and clinical factorsLetice Ericeira Valente0Annibal Truzzi1Wanderson F. Souza2Gilberto Sousa Alves3Carlos Eduardo de Oliveira Alves4Felipe Kenji Sudo5Maria Elisa O. Lanna6Denise Madeira Moreira7Eliasz Engelhardt8Jerson Laks9Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroUniversidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroNational School of Public HealthUniversidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroUniversidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroUniversidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroNational School of Public HealthUniversidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroUniversidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroUniversidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroCaring for a demented family member has been associated with burden. Studies concerning health self-perception of family caregivers are still scarce. OBJECTIVE: To investigate caregivers perceived health and to look into relationships with patients and caregivers' sociodemographic and clinical data. METHOD: Dyads of dementia outpatients and family caregivers (n=137) were assessed with Mini Mental State Examination, Functional Activities Questionnaire, Neuropsychiatric Inventory and Clinical Dementia Rating. Caregivers answered Sociodemographic Questionnaire, Beck Depression and Anxiety Inventories, Zarit Burden Interview and Maslach Burnout Inventory. RESULTS: Caregivers poor perceived health was associated with emotional exhaustion, burden, depression and anxiety. Logistic regression analyses revealed caregivers' age, anxiety and physical problem as the main predictors of health self-perception. CONCLUSION: Aged family caregivers with anxiety who also report physical problem characterize a group at risk for poor self-perceived health. Evaluation of health self-perception may be useful for designing interventions to improve anxiety and physical health.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2011000600003&lng=en&tlng=encuidador familiar de demenciadodemênciaautopercepção de saúdeidadeansiedade |
| spellingShingle | Letice Ericeira Valente Annibal Truzzi Wanderson F. Souza Gilberto Sousa Alves Carlos Eduardo de Oliveira Alves Felipe Kenji Sudo Maria Elisa O. Lanna Denise Madeira Moreira Eliasz Engelhardt Jerson Laks Health self-perception by dementia family caregivers: sociodemographic and clinical factors Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria cuidador familiar de demenciado demência autopercepção de saúde idade ansiedade |
| title | Health self-perception by dementia family caregivers: sociodemographic and clinical factors |
| title_full | Health self-perception by dementia family caregivers: sociodemographic and clinical factors |
| title_fullStr | Health self-perception by dementia family caregivers: sociodemographic and clinical factors |
| title_full_unstemmed | Health self-perception by dementia family caregivers: sociodemographic and clinical factors |
| title_short | Health self-perception by dementia family caregivers: sociodemographic and clinical factors |
| title_sort | health self perception by dementia family caregivers sociodemographic and clinical factors |
| topic | cuidador familiar de demenciado demência autopercepção de saúde idade ansiedade |
| url | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2011000600003&lng=en&tlng=en |
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