Factors Influencing Burden in Spouse-Caregivers of Patients with Chronic-Acquired Brain Injury.

BioMed Research International
Stefania LarattaAntonio Cerasa

Abstract

In this cross-sectional study, we assess associated factors of burden in spouse-caregivers of patients with acquired brain injury (ABI) in the chronic phase. 35 spouse-caregivers (71% female, mean age ± SD: 55.7 ± 11.1y) of patients with mild/moderate ABI (29% female, mean age ± SD: 57.5 ± 10.7y), admitted to the intensive rehabilitation unit of the Institute S. Anna (Crotone, Italy) between January 2013 and December 2017, were contacted 2 years postinjury and asked to complete a series of questionnaires. The outcome measure was the Caregiver Burden Inventory (CBI) test, while several demographical and clinical data were considered as predictive factors. Two years after injury, a high level of burden was reported in 34.2% of spouse-caregivers. Stepwise multiple linear regression analyses revealed that caring for a patient with more severe disability (as measured by the Barthel Index scale) and the family life cycle (from the initial phase of engagement to marriage with adult children) explain the vast majority of variance for higher caregiver burden. The functional clinical status and the stages through which a family may pass over time were identified as areas in which the spouse-caregiver of ABI patients experienced high leve...Continue Reading

References

Dec 1, 1989·The Gerontologist·M Novak, C Guest
Jan 1, 1988·International Disability Studies·C CollinV Horne
Jun 1, 1987·Family Process·J S Rolland
Dec 1, 1980·The Gerontologist·S H ZaritJ Bach-Peterson
Aug 21, 2002·Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology·Joan MachamerSureyya Dikmen
Aug 21, 2002·Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology·Nigel V MarshJames W Sleigh
Dec 19, 2002·Brain Injury : [BI]·Nina NaborsMitchell Rosenthal
Nov 16, 2005·Brain Injury : [BI]·Marie Claude Blais, Jean-Marie Boisvert
Sep 20, 2007·The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation·Kristy DraperMichael Schönberger
Aug 26, 2009·Rehabilitation Psychology·Barbara M Dausch, Sheila Saliman
May 26, 2010·The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences·Brian J AyotteRichard N Jones
Apr 13, 2012·The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation·Naomi BoycottPatrick Vesey
Jun 14, 2012·The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation·Eleonore BayenUNKNOWN Steering Committee of the PariS-TBI study
Mar 19, 2014·Rehabilitation Psychology·Carlota Las HayasEsther Calvete
Aug 15, 2014·The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation·Unn Sollid ManskowAudny Anke
Feb 11, 2015·Psychology, Health & Medicine·Francesco TramontiMaria Chiara Carboncini
Nov 19, 2015·The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences·Mieke Beth ThomeerJacqueline L Angel
Aug 2, 2018·BioMed Research International·M D'IppolitoU Bivona
Oct 14, 2018·Journal of Clinical Neuroscience : Official Journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia·Desiree LatellaRocco Salvatore Calabro

❮ Previous
Next ❯

Software Mentioned

Statistical Package for Social Science software ( SPSS

Related Concepts

Related Feeds

Brain Injury & Trauma

brain injury after impact to the head is due to both immediate mechanical effects and delayed responses of neural tissues.