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To evaluate the relationships between objective caregiving demands, caregiver characteristics, subjective burden, and anxiety among informal caregivers of hospitalized older adults.

May 19, 2022CureusOpen Access

The Indirect Effect of the Frailty of Dependent Elderly People Needing Hospitalization on Their Informal Caregivers' Anxiety

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IVIoannis VrettosNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens FAFotios AnagnostopoulosPanteion University PVPanagiota VoukelatouNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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Cross-sectional study reveals high anxiety in caregivers of hospitalized elderly patients, indicating patient frailty indirectly drives anxiety through subjective burden.

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To evaluate the relationships between objective caregiving demands, caregiver characteristics, subjective burden, and anxiety among informal caregivers of hospitalized older adults.
Conducted a cross-sectional study of 311 patient-caregiver dyads in a hospital setting.
Assessed caregiver subjective burden via the Zarit Burden Interview and anxiety symptoms via the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS).
Modeled direct and indirect associations through correlation analyses and path analysis, positioning subjective burden as a mediator between patient-caregiver characteristics and anxiety.
Abnormal anxiety symptoms (HADS score 11–21) were present in 29.6% (n=92) of caregivers, with borderline anxiety (HADS score 8–10) observed in 21.2% (n=66).
Subjective caregiving burden was categorized as mild in 36.3% (n=113), moderate in 32.2% (n=100), and severe in 8.4% (n=26) of caregivers.
Female caregiver gender, spousal relationship, and subjective burden directly correlated with higher anxiety, with subjective burden significantly mediating the effects of patient frailty, comorbidity, and caregiving duration on anxiety.

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Vrettos et al. (2022) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a710a03abc331a85807a3a6 https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25144

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Cross-sectional study reveals high anxiety in caregivers of hospitalized elderly patients, indicating patient frailty indirectly drives anxiety through subjective burden.

The Indirect Effect of the Frailty of Dependent Elderly People Needing Hospitalization on Their Informal Caregivers' Anxiety

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