Factors Associated with Caregiver Burden in Patients with Alzheimer¡¯s Disease

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°­È¿½Å(Kang Hyo-Shin) - Samsung Biomedical Research Institute Center for Clinical Research
¸í¿ìÀç(Myung Woo-Jae) - Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry
³ª´ö·Ä(Na Duk-Lyul) - Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine Department of Neurology
±è¼ºÀ±(Kim Seong-Yoon) - University of Ulsan College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry
ÀÌÀçÈ«(Lee Jae-Hong) - University of Ulsan College of Medicine Department of Neurology
ÇѼ³Èñ(Han Seol-Heui) - Konkuk University School of Medicine Department of Neurology
ÃÖ¼ºÇý(Choi Seong-Hye) - Inha University College of Medicine Department of Neurology
±è»óÀ±(Kim Sang-Yun) - Seoul National University College of Medicine Department of Neurology
±è¼±¿ì(Kim Seon-Woo) - Samsung Biomedical Research Institute Biostatistics Unit
±èµµ°ü(Kim Doh-Kwan) - Samsung Biomedical Research Institute Center for Clinical Research

Abstract

Objective: Caregivers for patients with Alzheimer¡¯s disease (AD) suffer from psychological and financial burdens. However, the results of the relationship between burden and cognitive function, performance of activities of daily living, and depressive symptoms have remained inconsistent. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine which factors are more significant predictors of heightened burden, cognitive impairment or functional decline, besides neuropsychiatric symptoms.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in a sample comprised of 1,164 pairs of patients with AD and caregivers from the Clinical Research of Dementia of South Korea study cohorts. The cognitive function of each sub-domain, functional impairments, depressive symptoms, and caregiver burden were assessed using the dementia version of Seoul Neuropsychological Screening Battery (SNSB-D), Barthel Index for Daily Living Activities (ADL), Seoul-Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (S-IADL), the Clinical Dementia Rating Sum of Box (CDR-SB), the Global Deterioration Scale (GDS), the Korean version of the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (K-NPI), and the 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale.

Results: We found that higher severity (higher CDR-SB and GDS scores) and more functional impairment (lower ADL and higher S-IADL scores) were significantly associated with higher caregiver burden. In addition, depressive symptoms of patients (higher Geriatric Depression Scale scores) were associated with higher caregiver burden.

Conclusion: Therefore, interventions to help maintain activities of daily living in patients with AD may alleviate caregiver burden and improve caregiver well-being.

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Caregiver, Alzheimer¡¯s disease, Cognition, Activities of daily living
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