Τίτλος:
COVID-19 Crisis Effects on Caregiver Distress in Neurocognitive Disorder
Γλώσσες Τεκμηρίου:
Αγγλικά
Περίληψη:
Background: The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic seems to have mental health implications for both people with neurocognitive disorder and their caregivers. Objective: The study aimed to shed light on relations between caregiver mental reaction to the pandemic and caregiver distress related to neuropsychiatric symptoms, memory impairment progression, and functional impairment of people with neurocognitive disorder during the period of confinement in Greece. Methods: The study included caregivers of patients with mild (N = 13) and major (N = 54) neurocognitive disorder. The caregiver-based telephone interview was based on items of the neuropsychiatric inventory questionnaire, the AD8 Dementia Screening Instrument, and the Bristol Activities of Daily Living Scale. Regarding the mental impact of the COVID-19 crisis on caregivers, four single questions referring to their worries in the last seven days were posed, in addition to the scales Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-Item (GAD-7) and the 22-item Impact of Event Scale-revised (IES-R). A stepwise linear regression model was employed for studying the relationship between caregiver distress and demographic and clinical data and caregiver mental reaction to COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. Results: Caregiver distress severity during the confinement period was influenced not only by memory deficits (p = 0.009) and neuropsychiatric symptoms (p < 0.001) of patients, but also by caregiver hyperarousal (p = 0.003) and avoidance symptoms (p = 0.033) and worries directly linked to the COVID-19 crisis (p = 0.022). Conclusion: These observations provide further evidence for the urgent need for support of caregivers of patients with neurocognitive disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic. © 2021-IOS Press. All rights reserved.
Συγγραφείς:
Alexopoulos, P.
Soldatos, R.
Kontogianni, E.
Frouda, M.
Loanna Aligianni, S.
Skondra, M.
Passa, M.
Konstantopoulou, G.
Stamouli, E.
Katirtzoglou, E.
Politis, A.
Economou, P.
Alexaki, M.
Siarkos, K.
Politis, A.
Περιοδικό:
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
Λέξεις-κλειδιά:
activity of daily living assessment; adult; aged; Article; avoidance behavior; caregiver; coronavirus disease 2019; disorders of higher cerebral function; distress syndrome; female; functional disease; Greece; human; Impact of Events Scale; major clinical study; male; memory disorder; neuropsychiatric inventory; pandemic; patient worry; priority journal; questionnaire; telephone interview; caregiver; disorders of higher cerebral function; middle aged; psychology; quarantine; very elderly, Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Caregivers; COVID-19; Female; Greece; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Neurocognitive Disorders; Quarantine
