Family caregivers' sleep disturbance and its associations with multilevel stressors when caring for patients with dementia

Aging and Mental Health

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 92-101

  Chiu, Yi Chen ^a   Lee, Yi Nung ^b   Wang, Peng Chih ^c   Chang, Ting Huan ^d   Li, Chia Lin ^e   Hsu, Wen Chun ^e   Lee, Shwu Hua ^e  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^b TRI SERVICE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dementia; Depressive symptoms; Family caregivers; Sleep disturbance

Indexed keywords

AGED; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FAMILY RELATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP DISORDERS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TAIWAN; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FAMILY RELATIONS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP DISORDERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TAIWAN;

EID: 84890859883     PISSN: 13607863     EISSN: 13646915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2013.837141     Document Type: Article

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