The Association of Positive and Negative Events with Depressive Symptomatology among Caregivers

A pilot study of eighty-two caregivers was conducted in South Carolina in 1991 to identify positive and negative factors associated with caregiving. Through home visits, interviewers obtained data on a variety of physical and mental health measures, including two new scales designed to measure perce...

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Published in:International journal of aging & human development 1993-01, Vol.36 (1), p.75-80
Main Authors: Macera, Caroline A., Eaker, Elaine D., Jannarone, Robert J., Davis, Dorothy R., Stoskopf, Carleen H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation, Psychological
Adult
Aged
Alzheimers Disease
Biological and medical sciences
Care
Caregivers
Caregivers - psychology
Caregiving
Dementia
Dementia - rehabilitation
Depression
Depression (Psychology)
Elderly people
Epidemiology
Family - psychology
Family Caregivers
Female
Humans
Life Events
Male
Medical sciences
Mental health
Middle Aged
Pilot Projects
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Sociocultural environment
Spouses
Stress, Psychological - etiology
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Summary:A pilot study of eighty-two caregivers was conducted in South Carolina in 1991 to identify positive and negative factors associated with caregiving. Through home visits, interviewers obtained data on a variety of physical and mental health measures, including two new scales designed to measure perceived “positive” and “negative” events that had occurred in the previous month. The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale was used as a measure of depressive symptomatology. For the new scales, only items that were significantly correlated with depressive symptomatology (p < 0.01) were retained. The new “positive” event scale (8 items) and the new “negative” event scale (16 items) had alpha coefficients of 0.79 and 0.86, respectively. These scales may be useful to researchers in sorting out mediating factors related to the burden of caregiving and in providing points for intervention.
ISSN:0091-4150
1541-3535
DOI:10.2190/KGEX-GMYY-5298-JQBT