Inventory of Overburden in Alzheimer's Patient Family Caregivers with no Specialized Training

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• 作者：Marí ; a del Carmen Pé ; rez-Fuentes^a ; ^{mpf421@ual.es} ; José ; Jesú ; s Gá ; zquez Linares^a ; Marí ; a Dolores Ruiz Ferná ; ndez^b ; Marí ; a del Mar Molero Jurado^a
• 关键词：Inventory ; Overload ; Caregivers ; Alzheimer ; Instrumental study
• 刊名：International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January-April 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：17
• 期：1
• 页码：56-64
• 全文大小：801 K
• 卷排序：17

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Background/Objective: Alzheimer-type dementia is one of the most frequent causes of dependence in an aging population, which combines with a considerable demand for care. Furthermore, when the caregiver is a family member or person without specialized training, such care impacts on that person's health. The Inventory of Overburden in Alzheimer's Patient Family Caregivers with no Specialized Training (IPSO-CA24) was designed to find out the needs of these caregivers and evaluate the caregiver's burden or distress. Method: The psychometric properties of the questionnaire were analyzed (in a reliability analysis, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory analysis) based on the responses of 255 caregivers. Results: The factor analyses showed a six-factor structure (Reaction to diagnosis, Physical health, Psychological symptomatology (caretaker), Behavioral symptomatology (patient), Knowledge of the illness, and Level of dependence) explaining 66.52% of the total variance with a reliability of .75 to .93. Support was also found for its convergent validity. Conclusions: The IPSO-CA24 responds to the need for an instrument enabling multidimensional evaluation of the burden on the family caregiver without specialized training.