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Do Caregiver Characteristics Affect Caregiver Burden Differently in Different Countries?
Uwe Konerding, Tom Bowen, Paul Forte, Eleftheria Karampli, Tomi Malmström, Elpida Pavi, Paulus Torkki, Elmar Graessel. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, 2018-12-30
Topic: Health services, long-term care and technology
The relationships between caregiver burden as measured with the Burden Scale for Family Caregivers-short form and 6 characteristics of caregivers caring for patients with dementia were investigated for caregivers from England (n = 36), Finland (n = 42), and Greece (n = 46) using survey data. In all 3 countries, caregiver burden increases with physical problems of the caregiver, emotional problems of the caregiver, and weekly hours of care. Hence, in all 3 countries, special support for informal care is required when these characteristics are at high levels. When the caregiver is a spouse or long-term partner of the person with dementia, lives in the same house as this person, or spends fewer than 20 h/wk for other duties than care, this is associated with less caregiver burden in England but with more caregiver burden in Greece. Accordingly, special support is required for Greek caregivers with these characteristics, but the opposite is true for English caregivers.
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APA 7th
Konerding, U., Bowen, T., Forte, P., Karampli, E., Malmström, T., Pavi, E., et al. (2019). Do Caregiver Characteristics Affect Caregiver Burden Differently in Different Countries? American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. https://doi.org/10.1177/1533317518822047
Vancouver
Konerding U, Bowen T, Forte P, Karampli E, Malmström T, Pavi E, et al. Do Caregiver Characteristics Affect Caregiver Burden Differently in Different Countries? American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. 2019. doi:10.1177/1533317518822047. PMID: 30595033.
BibTeX
@article{konerding2019-30595033,
author = {Konerding, Uwe and Bowen, Tom and Forte, Paul and Karampli, Eleftheria and Malmström, Tomi and Pavi, Elpida and Torkki, Paulus and Graessel, Elmar},
title = {{Do Caregiver Characteristics Affect Caregiver Burden Differently in Different Countries?}},
journal = {American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias},
year = {2019},
doi = {10.1177/1533317518822047},
pmid = {30595033},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/1533317518822047}
}
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Key findings
- When the caregiver is a spouse or long-term partner of the person with dementia, lives in the same house as this person, or spends fewer than 20 h/wk for other duties than care, this is associated with less caregiver burden in England but with more caregiver burden in Greece.
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Study details
- Participants36
- Evidence strengthLow
How this study scored 46/100
Published in a peer-reviewed journal. Scored zero for study design, effect reported and randomised / blinded because the record does not state it. We have no data on journal's citation record, times cited, citations per year, impact for its field and year, cited by studies here, still being cited, senior author's track record, institution's track record, multi-centre collaboration and free to read, so those were left out: it earned 26 of the 56 points we could judge it on, which is 46 out of 100.
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|---|---|---|
| Journal tier | 7 / 10 | Tier 3 — peer-reviewed journal (American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias) |
| Journal's citation record | — / 4 | No journal record from OpenAlex — left out of this score |
| Study design | 0 / 12 | No study design recorded — scores zero, not guessed (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Strength of evidence | 1 / 5 | Rated “low” in our summary |
| Peer-review validation | 10 / 10 | Peer-reviewed. Published as an article in a named peer-reviewed journal. |
| How recent | 2 / 5 | 2019 — within 10 year(s) of the newest study here |
| Sample size | 1 / 4 | 36 participants |
| Effect reported | 0 / 3 | No effect size reported — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Studied in people | 3 / 3 | Studied in people (participant count stated) |
| Randomised / blinded | 0 / 2 | No randomisation or blinding stated — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Times cited | — / 7 | No citation count (not found in OpenAlex) — left out of this score |
| Citations per year | — / 5 | No citation count or no year — left out of this score |
| Impact for its field and year | — / 6 | No field-weighted citation impact (OpenAlex has none yet) — left out of this score |
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| Still being cited | — / 4 | No yearly citation counts — left out of this score |
| Senior author's track record | — / 4 | Senior author's record not available — left out of this score |
| Institution's track record | — / 3 | No institution listed in OpenAlex — left out of this score |
| Multi-centre collaboration | — / 3 | Institutions not listed — left out of this score |
| Indexed in PubMed | 2 / 2 | Indexed in PubMed (PMID 30595033) |
| Free to read | — / 2 | Access not recorded — left out of this score |
| Points | 26 / 56 | Scored on 10 of 20 parts. We have no data for the rest, so they are left out: 26 of the 56 points we could judge it on is 46 out of 100. |
| Total | 46 / 100 | — |
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