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The impact of caregiving on informal caregivers of people with dementia: Family functioning, burden, and burnout
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Caregiving is a complex occupation, with a signifcant impact for informal caregivers (IC). Stress-process models propose a
framework that considers that this impact depends on primary and secondary stressors, but also on the IC situation appraisal.
This work aimed to verify: whether being, or not, an IC of an individual with dementia infuenced the relationship between
family functioning and burnout; the association between neuropsychiatric symptoms of the individual with dementia and IC
burnout and whether the IC burden and perceived family functioning had a mediating role in such relationship. This crosssectional study investigated diferences in family functioning and its association with burnout between IC and non-IC. For
IC specifcally, the study examined a mediation model to explore the possibility of neuropsychiatric symptoms indirectly
afecting IC burnout through the impact on family functioning and burden. Measures included the Copenhagen Burnout
Inventory, the McMaster Family Assessment Device, the Neuropsychiatric Inventory, and the Zarit Burden Interview. Results
showed an association between poorer family function and high burnout, specifcally in IC. They also showed that burden
mediated the relationship between neuropsychiatric symptoms and burnout. The fndings ofer a signifcant contribution to
the growing knowledge about the relationship between stressors associated with informal caregiving in dementia context,
such as neuropsychiatric symptoms and its outcomes, like burnout.
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Keywords
Burnout Burden Informal caregiving Family functioning Dementia Neuropsychiatric symptoms
Citation
Brites, R., Nunes, O., Hipólito, J., Pires, C. T., & Brandão, T. (2024). The impact of caregiving on informal caregivers of People with Dementia: Family Functioning, Burden, and burnout. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10880-024-10052-2
Publisher
Springer New York