Caregivers’ resilience is independent from the clinical symptoms of dementia

ABSTRACT Resilience is the capacity for successful adaptation when faced with the stress of adversity. We aimed to investigate the relationship between caregivers’ resilience and the sociodemographic and clinical factors of people with dementia. Cross-sectional assessment of 58 people with dementia...

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Main Authors: Rachel Dias, José Pedro Simões-Neto, Raquel Luiza Santos, Maria Fernanda Barroso de Sousa, Maria Alice Tourinho Baptista, Isabel Barbeito Lacerda, Nathalia Ramos Santos Kimura, Marcia Cristina Nascimento Dourado
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Published: Thieme Revinter Publicações
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2016001200967&lng=en&tlng=en
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author Rachel Dias
José Pedro Simões-Neto
Raquel Luiza Santos
Maria Fernanda Barroso de Sousa
Maria Alice Tourinho Baptista
Isabel Barbeito Lacerda
Nathalia Ramos Santos Kimura
Marcia Cristina Nascimento Dourado
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description ABSTRACT Resilience is the capacity for successful adaptation when faced with the stress of adversity. We aimed to investigate the relationship between caregivers’ resilience and the sociodemographic and clinical factors of people with dementia. Cross-sectional assessment of 58 people with dementia and their caregiver dyads showed that most caregivers were female adult children. The caregivers reported moderate to higher levels of resilience, lower levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms and moderate levels of burden. Resilience was not related to the caregiver’s gender (p = 0.883), nor clinical (p = 0.807) or emotional problems (p = 0.420). The regression showed that resilience was related to the caregiver’s quality of life (p < 0.01) and inversely associated with their depressive symptoms (p < 0.01). There was no relationship between caregivers’ resilience and the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of people with dementia. We can assume that resilience is an individual characteristic. Support groups should also focus on the factors that may increase resilience among caregivers.
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spelling doaj-art-9f41610d7ee04a229cf0f9bc44f4db322025-08-20T02:18:32ZengThieme Revinter PublicaçõesArquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria1678-4227741296797310.1590/0004-282x20160162S0004-282X2016001200967Caregivers’ resilience is independent from the clinical symptoms of dementiaRachel DiasJosé Pedro Simões-NetoRaquel Luiza SantosMaria Fernanda Barroso de SousaMaria Alice Tourinho BaptistaIsabel Barbeito LacerdaNathalia Ramos Santos KimuraMarcia Cristina Nascimento DouradoABSTRACT Resilience is the capacity for successful adaptation when faced with the stress of adversity. We aimed to investigate the relationship between caregivers’ resilience and the sociodemographic and clinical factors of people with dementia. Cross-sectional assessment of 58 people with dementia and their caregiver dyads showed that most caregivers were female adult children. The caregivers reported moderate to higher levels of resilience, lower levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms and moderate levels of burden. Resilience was not related to the caregiver’s gender (p = 0.883), nor clinical (p = 0.807) or emotional problems (p = 0.420). The regression showed that resilience was related to the caregiver’s quality of life (p < 0.01) and inversely associated with their depressive symptoms (p < 0.01). There was no relationship between caregivers’ resilience and the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of people with dementia. We can assume that resilience is an individual characteristic. Support groups should also focus on the factors that may increase resilience among caregivers.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2016001200967&lng=en&tlng=enresiliência psicológicacuidadoresdemênciadepressãoqualidade de vida
spellingShingle Rachel Dias
José Pedro Simões-Neto
Raquel Luiza Santos
Maria Fernanda Barroso de Sousa
Maria Alice Tourinho Baptista
Isabel Barbeito Lacerda
Nathalia Ramos Santos Kimura
Marcia Cristina Nascimento Dourado
Caregivers’ resilience is independent from the clinical symptoms of dementia
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
resiliência psicológica
cuidadores
demência
depressão
qualidade de vida
title Caregivers’ resilience is independent from the clinical symptoms of dementia
title_full Caregivers’ resilience is independent from the clinical symptoms of dementia
title_fullStr Caregivers’ resilience is independent from the clinical symptoms of dementia
title_full_unstemmed Caregivers’ resilience is independent from the clinical symptoms of dementia
title_short Caregivers’ resilience is independent from the clinical symptoms of dementia
title_sort caregivers resilience is independent from the clinical symptoms of dementia
topic resiliência psicológica
cuidadores
demência
depressão
qualidade de vida
url http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2016001200967&lng=en&tlng=en
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