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KMID : 1000920060020010033
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Korean Journal of Care Work
2006 Volume.2 No. 1 p.33 ~ p.60
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Influencing Factors and Caregiving burden among primary caregiver for Demented Elderly
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Lee Hae-Ja
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The main purpose of this research is to investigate caregiver’s burden and the factors influencing caregiving burden in the primary caregivers of patients with dementia. Data was collected by questionnaires from 196 dementia elders’ primary caregivers that have been caring for the dementia elders at home for more than 6 months and have not resorted to any hospitals or in-home services. Independent variables included dementia elders’ and primary caregivers’ general characteristics and social support characteristics, and the caregiving burden, a dependant variable, includes 5 sub-categories that was measured separately: total caregiving burden and physical burden, social burden, emotional burden, financial burden, and negative change in family relationships. The results are as follows : The burden of caregiver’s was relatively high. With regard to the issues of the caregivers’ burden, the social burden is the most significant one among the five dimensions of the care giving burden, and the next are physical, emotional, financial burdens and negative change in family relationships in this order. The degree of care burden of the primary caregiver was significantly dependent on the level of ADL, problem behavior, marital status, family income, the hours of caregiving per one day. Among three types of social support, emotional support appears to be the most important in diminishing the caregivers’ total burden. These findings provide some implications and suggestions for the development of policy in order to relieve primary caregiver’s burden.
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