OBJECTIVES: Caring for a @entity1 with @entity303 is a real challenge and can have considerable psychological consequences in the long run. Many caregivers, mostly relatives, feel highly burdened. To develop effective caregiver support to prevent caregivers from getting overburdened, insight is needed into the determinants of burden. The objective of this study is to explore which @entity1 and caregiver characteristics determine the different kinds of caregiver burden over time, both in the short and in the long run. METHOD: The study was longitudinal. Data on @entity1 and caregivers, general @entity147 were collected at three times: at baseline, at the end of treatment and at nine months. The study was conducted in a @entity146 skilled nursing home with a unit for integrative reactivation and rehabilitation (IRR) and at different sites of home-/day care, assisted living arrangements and nursing home wards (usual care). RESULTS: General burden is shown to be determined by severity of @entity1 's neuropsychiatric symptoms, caregiver's sense of competence, health-related quality of life. @entity147 is determined by severity of @entity1 's neuropsychiatric symptoms, caregiver's sense of competence, high affiliation and @entity1 gender. CONCLUSION: In preventing or treating caregiver burden, professional interventions need to aim specifically at diminishing the neuropsychiatric symptoms in @entity303 @entity1 and improving the sense of competence in caregivers.

Do determinants of XXXX in @entity303 caregivers change over time?

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients', 'patient'] @entity303 :: ('MESH:D003704', 'Disease') :: ['dementia'] @entity147 :: ('MESH:D005316', 'Disease') :: ['Emotional distress', 'burden and emotional distress'] @entity146 :: ('MESH:D001523', 'Disease') :: ['psychiatric']
@entity147 :: (MESH:D005316,Disease) :: ['burden and emotional distress']
