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Jaclene A Zauszniewski1, Christopher J Burant1.
Abstract
In this secondary analysis of 138 community-dwelling women caregivers of persons with dementia, we examined whether caregiver resourcefulness mediated the effects of both the frequency of and reactions to their care recipients' memory-related, depressive, and disruptive symptoms of dementia on caregiver depressive symptoms. Caregiver resourcefulness mediated the effects of care recipient depressive symptoms on caregiver depressive symptoms, and the effects of caregiver actions to depressive and disruptive symptoms on caregiver depressive symptoms. The findings suggest the potential benefit of teaching resourcefulness skills to reduce depressive symptoms of caregivers whose care recipients frequently exhibited depressive or disruptive symptoms associated with dementia.Entities:
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Year: 2020 PMID: 32255406 PMCID: PMC7314645 DOI: 10.1080/01612840.2019.1693670
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Issues Ment Health Nurs ISSN: 0161-2840 Impact factor: 1.835