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To determine how caregiver burden impacts health-related quality of life in informal caregivers and whether subjective burden mediates the effects of patient and caregiver risk factors.

January 3, 2023PsychogeriatricsOpen Access

Factors associated with health‐related quality of life of informal caregivers of older patients and the mediating role of subjective caregivers' burden

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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 demonstrates that subjective burden mediates quality of life declines in informal caregivers of older patients, highlighting targets for caregiver support interventions.

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To determine how caregiver burden impacts health-related quality of life in informal caregivers and whether subjective burden mediates the effects of patient and caregiver risk factors.
Conducted a cross-sectional study evaluating 311 older patient-caregiver dyads.
Assessed caregiver subjective burden via the Zarit Burden Interview and health-related quality of life using SF-12 physical (PCS) and mental (MCS) component summaries.
Applied mediation analysis with caregiver and patient characteristics as predictors, subjective burden as mediator, and SF-12 scores as outcomes.
Subjective caregiver burden was negatively associated with both physical and mental component summary scores after controlling for demographic and clinical variables.
Caregiver sociodemographic factors, caregiving duration, patient frailty, and patient comorbidity had significant indirect associations with caregiver quality of life, largely mediated through subjective burden.

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Vrettos et al. (2023) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9247e32a0da47949384641 https://doi.org/10.1111/psyg.12930

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Cross-sectional study demonstrates that subjective burden mediates quality of life declines in informal caregivers of older patients, highlighting targets for caregiver support interventions.

Factors associated with health‐related quality of life of informal caregivers of older patients and the mediating role of subjective caregivers' burden

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Factors associated with health‐related quality of life of informal caregivers of older patients and the mediating role of subjective caregivers' burden

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