Impact of Alzheimer's disease on family caregiver psychosocial health. Prague's experience

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00064165:_____/14:10286307

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.rediviva.sav.sk/56i1/32.pdf" target="_blank" >http://www.rediviva.sav.sk/56i1/32.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Impact of Alzheimer's disease on family caregiver psychosocial health. Prague's experience

Original language description

BACKGROUND:The objective of the study was to assess the degree of burden and its pos-sible change in family caregivers of the long-term sick family member with progressiveAlzheimer's disease (AD) during eight-month monitoring.METHODS:In addition to the common psychiatric examination the Mini-Mental StateExamination (MMSE) was administered in patients to indicate the severity of the demen-tia and the Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI) was administered in caregivers to assessed degreeof burden. The total of 60people has been examined - 30 patients with AD and 30 theircaregivers (CGs) were recruited from the Department of Psychiatry.RESULTS:At the beginning of the study there were 18 patients with mild stage of AD (60%)and 11 patients suffered from moderate orsevere stage of AD (36%). After 8 monthsfrom the beginning of the study there were 19 patients with moderate or severe stage ofAD(63%) and two patients suffered from severe stage of AD (6,6%). The change in thedegree of caregiver burden

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

FL - Psychiatry, sexology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Activitas Nervosa Superior Rediviva

ISSN

1337-933X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

56

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1-2

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

4

Pages from-to

32-35

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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