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- Title
Medical conditions and depressive symptoms: A study of kinship profiles in dementia caregivers.
- Authors
Martín‐María, Natalia; Vara‐García, Carlos; Romero‐Moreno, Rosa; Jiménez‐Gonzalo, Lucía; Barrera‐Caballero, Samara; Fernandes‐Pires, Jose; Olazarán, Javier; Losada‐Baltar, Andrés; Martín-María, Natalia; Vara-García, Carlos; Romero-Moreno, Rosa; Jiménez-Gonzalo, Lucía; Barrera-Caballero, Samara; Fernandes-Pires, Jose; Losada-Baltar, Andrés
- Abstract
<bold>Objective: </bold>To analyze the association between diverse medical conditions and depressive symptoms in different profiles of dementia caregivers based on sex and kinship (wives, husbands, daughters, and sons).<bold>Methods: </bold>Individual interviews were conducted with 338 dementia family caregivers. Depressive symptoms were measured with the Spanish version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale. Medical conditions encompassed the following physical diseases: high cholesterol, osteoarthritis, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular, brain, kidney, liver, and stomach diseases.Logistic regression analyses were carried out to identify determinants associated to thepresenceof depressive symptoms.<bold>Results: </bold>High cholesterol was the most frequent disease among caregivers.Significant differences among groups were found in depressive symptoms: between wives (50.60%) and husbands (28.40%),(p = 0.033), and between daughters (57.00%) and husbands (p = 0.001). Half of the sonsreported thepresenceof depressive symptoms. In daughters, depressive symptomatology was significantly more likely whether they presented a worse reaction to disruptive behaviors, a poor assessment of global deterioration of care recipient, and less perceived health status. Furthermore, daughters were 1.94 times more likely to experience depressive symptoms if they presented medical conditions (p = 0.017).<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Daughter caregivers that have depressive and physical diseases may be an especially vulnerable subgroup of caregivers that may not be the ideal population to provide care. Access to high-quality, evidence-based therapies focused on improving caregivers' physical health could have a positiveeffecton thepresenceof depressive symptoms, particularly in the case of daughter caregivers.
- Publication
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2022, Vol 37, Issue 11, p1
- ISSN
0885-6230
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/gps.5823