Introduction: The caregivers of persons with chronic psychiatric disability experience considerable amount of burden leading to a poor quality of life (QoL). Aim: The aim of the present study was to assess the QoL of caregivers of persons with mental retardation and compare them with caregivers of persons with chronic schizophrenia. Method: The sample comprised of 30 caregivers of patients with...

A Preexperimental study was done to assess the effectiveness of selected feeding techniques on knowledge and practice among caregivers. Purposive sampling technique was used and 35 caregivers were selected at “Anbu Illam” (Home for Cerebral Palsied children)-Vellore. Demographic variables were collected by using structured questionnaire and Observational checklist was used to assess the feeding...

BACKGROUND Person-centered care interventions can improve the quality of life and decrease behavioral problems of people with dementia. Although not convincingly proven, person-centered care interventions may benefit the caregivers as well. This study aims to gain insight into how working with the Veder Contact Method (VCM) - a new person-centered care method - influences the job satisfaction o...

OBJECTIVES Family caregivers of children who depend on medical technology (CMT) provide highly skilled care up to 24 hours per day. Sleep disruption places family caregivers at risk for poor health and related outcomes that threaten their long-term caregiving capacity. Few studies exist that have measured sleep in family caregivers, and most have relied entirely on subjective measures. METHOD...

Disagreements and misunderstandings between informal caregivers and care-receivers have been widely reported, but the causes are unclear. The present article compares the views of people with acquired brain injury and their main informal caregivers (28 dyads, n = 56). First, we report a quantitative analysis finding that the majority of disagreements were about caregivers' identity. Caregivers ...

OBJECTIVES This study identified different types of caregivers who provide care to older African Americans, the types of caregiving structures created to provide care, and the factors that help predict caregiving structures. METHODS A community sample of 330 caregivers caring for 202 elderly African Americans was used. Multinomial logistic regression predicted what type of caregiving structur...

BACKGROUND Fever in children is one of the most common clinical symptoms and a chief complaint and a main reason that caregivers took the children to the outpatient service or admitted to hospital. Studies have found that the majority of parents surveyed at a hospital pediatric clinic held unrealistic and unwarranted concerns about fevers, first termed as 'fever phobia' by Schmitt in 1980. In t...

BACKGROUND Because Taiwan has the fastest aging rate among developed countries, care for the elderly is becoming more prominent in the country. Primary family caregivers play an important role in patient health and health promotion behavior. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), an age-related disease, is a major public health problem with high morbidity and mortality and can be a long-...

BACKGROUND Like most caregivers, informal caregivers for children (typically parents) with special needs supply the majority of the care provided. Formal care is sometimes needed to supplement informal caregivers' efforts. For those interested in children with special needs, there is a paucity of research on those factors affecting the amount of formal care that caregivers' request. OBJECTIVE...