Differences in psychological morbidity among Australian and Chinese caregivers of persons with dementia in residential care

Objective The aim of the present study was to determine the effects of culture on caregiver psychological morbidity among informal caregivers of institutionalised persons with dementia in three different populations: (1) Shanghai, (2) Australian‐Chinese and (3) Australian mainstream (non‐Chinese). M...

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Published in:International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2009-12, Vol.24 (12), p.1343-1351
Main Authors: Wu, Helen Zong Ying, Low, Lee-Fay, Xiao, Shifu, Brodaty, Henry
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Aged
Analysis of Variance
Asian Continental Ancestry Group - psychology
Asian people
Australia - epidemiology
Biological and medical sciences
Caregivers
Caregivers - psychology
carer burden
China - epidemiology
cross-cultural
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Culture
Dementia
Dementia - nursing
Dementia - psychology
depression
Depressive Disorder - epidemiology
Effects
European Continental Ancestry Group - psychology
Family environment. Family history
Female
Geriatric psychiatry
Guilt
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Mental depression
Middle Aged
Miscellaneous
Nursing Homes
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
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Summary:Objective The aim of the present study was to determine the effects of culture on caregiver psychological morbidity among informal caregivers of institutionalised persons with dementia in three different populations: (1) Shanghai, (2) Australian‐Chinese and (3) Australian mainstream (non‐Chinese). Methods Caregivers and residents with dementia were recruited from (1) a dementia hospital in Shanghai, (2) three ethno‐specific Chinese nursing homes in Sydney and (3) four mainstream nursing homes in Sydney. Psychological morbidity was assessed using the Geriatric Depression Scale, mental health component (MHC) of the RAND‐36 Health Status Inventory and a guilt scale. Results There were no significant differences between the three groups as measured by the guilt scale and MHC. Shanghai caregivers had higher mean depression scores than Australian‐Chinese caregivers (p 
ISSN:0885-6230
1099-1166
DOI:10.1002/gps.2264