Personal mastery is associated with reduced sympathetic arousal in stressed alzheimer caregivers

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 310-317

  Roepke, Susan K ^a   Mausbach, Brent T ^a   Aschbacher, Kirstin ^a   Ziegler, Michael G ^d   Dimsdale, Joel E ^a   Mills, Paul J ^a   Von Käsignnel, Roland ^a,b   Ancoli Israel, Sonia ^a,c   Patterson, Thomas L ^a,c   Grant, Igor ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Caregiving; Coping; Dementia; Mastery; Stress; Sympathetic arousal

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CATECHOLAMINE; NORADRENALIN;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING SCALE; ACUTE STRESS; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAREGIVER; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL DEMENTIA RATING SCALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMENTIA; DRUG USE; ELDERLY CARE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HOME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MENTAL TASK; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PEARLIN PERSONAL MASTERY SCALE; PERSONAL MASTERY; PROBLEM BEHAVIORS SCALE; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; BLOOD; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CAREGIVERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOREPINEPHRINE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 48649104259     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: 15457214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JGP.0b013e3181662a80     Document Type: Article

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