Unidimensional 12-item zarit caregiver burden interview for the assessment of dementia caregivers' burden obtained by item response theory

Value in Health

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1141-1147

  Ballesteros, Javier ^a,b   Santos, Borja ^b   González Fraile, Eduardo ^a,c   Muñoz Hermoso, Paula ^c,d   Domínguez Panchón, Ana I ^c,e   Martín Carrasco, Manuel ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE SALUD MENTAL CIBERSAM   (Spain)

^c Instituto de Investigaciones Psiquiatricas   (Spain)

^d Clinica Psiquiatrica Padre Menni   (Spain)

^e AITA   (Spain)

Author keywords

confirmatory factor analysis; item response theory; Mokken analysis; Samejima's graded response model; Zarit Caregiver Burden Interview

Indexed keywords

12 ITEM ZARIT CAREGIVER BURDEN INTERVIEW; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ITEM RESPONSE THEORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THEORY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; CAREGIVERS; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84871232397     PISSN: 10983015     EISSN: 15244733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2012.07.005     Document Type: Article

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