Self-efficacy for managing dementia may protect against burden and depression in Alzheimer's caregivers

Gallagher, Damien; Mhaoláin, Áine Ní; Crosby, Lisa; Ryan, David L.; Lacey, Loretto; Coen, Robert F.; Walsh, Cathal; Coakley, Davis; Walsh, J.B.; Cunningham, Conal; Lawlor, Brian A.

doi:10.1080/13607863.2011.562179

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“…We can suppose that the clinical symptoms of dementia are possibly not perceived as uncontrollable by the caregivers assessed in this study. Gallagher et al 29 have shown that high self-efficacy in dementia caregivers could mitigate the symptoms of burden and depression. In addition, caregivers with an internal locus of control, regarding the person with dementia's behavior, would be less susceptible to the negative consequences caused by stress 30 .…”

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Caregivers’ resilience is independent from the clinical symptoms of dementia

Dias¹,

Simões-Neto

Santos³

et al. 2016

Arq. Neuro-Psiquiatr.

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Resilience is the capacity for successful adaptation when faced with the stress of adversity. We aimed to investigate the relationship between caregivers’ resilience and the sociodemographic and clinical factors of people with dementia. Cross-sectional assessment of 58 people with dementia and their caregiver dyads showed that most caregivers were female adult children. The caregivers reported moderate to higher levels of resilience, lower levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms and moderate levels of burden. Resilience was not related to the caregiver’s gender (p = 0.883), nor clinical (p = 0.807) or emotional problems (p = 0.420). The regression showed that resilience was related to the caregiver’s quality of life (p < 0.01) and inversely associated with their depressive symptoms (p < 0.01). There was no relationship between caregivers’ resilience and the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of people with dementia. We can assume that resilience is an individual characteristic. Support groups should also focus on the factors that may increase resilience among caregivers.

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“…The presence of burden depends on a series of subjective factors 29 . We can suppose that the clinical symptoms of dementia are possibly not perceived as uncontrollable by the caregivers assessed in this study.…”

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Caregivers’ resilience is independent from the clinical symptoms of dementia

Dias¹,

Simões-Neto

Santos³

et al. 2016

Arq. Neuro-Psiquiatr.

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“…The CRSES scored moderately at the quality assessment stage, and no further validation studies were identified. Whilst there is a wealth of research measuring self-efficacy for caregivers of people with dementia [49], there appears to be a lack of research concerning self-efficacy for people with dementia. This may be due to an absence of specific measures, developed for this population.…”

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Review of Positive Psychology Outcome Measures for Chronic Illness, Traumatic Brain Injury and Older Adults: Adaptability in Dementia?

Stoner¹,

Orrell

Spector³

2015

Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord

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Background: Despite positive psychology being increasingly recognised as an important agent in well-being, there is a lack of standardised outcome measures for psychosocial dementia research. This review assessed positive psychology outcome measures using standardised criterion in populations that were identified as having shared characteristics. It aimed to identify robust measures that were suitable for potential adaption or use within a dementia population. Summary: The review identified 16 positive psychology outcome measures (and 8 further psychometric assessments of these) within the constructs of resilience, self-efficacy, religiousness/spirituality, life valuation, sense of coherence, autonomy, resourcefulness and a combined measure (CASP-19). Scale development studies were subject to a quality assessment, and most were found to be lacking information on reproducibility and responsiveness. Key Messages: A wide range of measures within the constructs of positive psychology was identified as having potential utility for psychosocial research within a dementia population. Examples included the CD-RISC, GSWB, SWLS, MPAQ, RSOA and CASP-19. It is recommended that such scales are further adapted or validated for people with dementia. Underreporting of appropriate psychometric analyses hampered this review, and it is recommended that future authors endeavour to report such analyses.

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“…Also, elderly female caregivers report more suffering and clinical symptoms. This symptomatology has been evaluated as frequent among caregivers in different studies [8,21,22].…”

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Psychological Adjustment of Elderly Caregivers of People with Dementia

Andrés-Jiménez¹,

Gras²,

Ato-García³

2017

J Gerontol Geriatr Res

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Dementia is a disease that affects the elderly, and their caregivers, in many cases, are also elderly. Considering that caring for a person with dementia affects the health of caregivers, the aim of this study is to check the degree of psychological adjustment in a sample of 51 elderly family caregivers of people with dementia (31 women and 20 men), and test the relationship between their psychological adjustment and their physical, psychological and emotional health. The results show the importance of these characteristics in elderly caregivers and this is a further step to adapt psychological interventions to them.

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Self-efficacy for managing dementia may protect against burden and depression in Alzheimer's caregivers

Abstract: Further longitudinal investigation is warranted to determine if self-efficacy might be usefully considered a target in future interventional studies to alleviate symptoms of burden and depression in Alzheimer's caregivers.

Cited by 139 publications

References 46 publications

Caregivers’ resilience is independent from the clinical symptoms of dementia

Caregivers’ resilience is independent from the clinical symptoms of dementia

Review of Positive Psychology Outcome Measures for Chronic Illness, Traumatic Brain Injury and Older Adults: Adaptability in Dementia?

Psychological Adjustment of Elderly Caregivers of People with Dementia

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