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Staff confidence, morale and attitudes in a specialist unit for general hospital patients with dementia and delirium—a qualitative study
Author(s) -
Spencer Karen,
Foster Pippa E. R.,
Whittamore Kathy H.,
Goldberg Sarah E.,
Harwood Rowan H.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of geriatric psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1099-1166
pISSN - 0885-6230
DOI - 10.1002/gps.4178
Subject(s) - nottingham health profile , rehabilitation , geriatric rehabilitation , gerontology , medicine , delirium , dementia , psychology , library science , psychiatry , disease , physical therapy , alternative medicine , pathology , computer science
caregivers at risk for depression by using the J-ZBI_8 alone, a very simple tool consisting of only 8 items, the administration of which is much less time consuming. Moreover, a short version of the Zarit caregiver burden scale is less threatening to caregivers than a battery of other tests, including measures of depression. Additionally, the J-ZBI_8 has been the most widely used scale for assessing caregiver burden in a practical care setting in Japan. Therefore, an awareness of the optimal cutoff score of 13 identified in this study will allow clinicians to identify family caregivers who are in need of further assistance or intervention at an early stage, possibly preventing depression and other common problems among caregivers.