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P3‐472: Pilot study of art therapy with family caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease
Author(s) -
Marques Rita C.G.,
Alegria Renne P.,
Bottino Cassio M.C.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1016/j.jalz.2008.05.2043
Subject(s) - quality of life (healthcare) , psychology , disease , expression (computer science) , art therapy , mental health , family caregivers , scale (ratio) , psychotherapist , cognition , clinical psychology , medicine , gerontology , psychiatry , physics , pathology , quantum mechanics , computer science , programming language
about caregiver burdens, including psychosocial burden, biological burden, negative thinking; people relationship, the dependence of patients, the ignominy burden. Moreover, there produced affective, tool, and information support factors, respectively, from the demand and satisfaction aspect. The reliability of each factor has greater than 0.6. Pearson Production Moment analysis revealed that psychosocial, biological burden factors were significant correlation with information and tool support factors, respectively. Furthermore, the dependence of dementia patient factor is marked significantly related with affective support factor. However, the negative thinking burden factor is significant negative correlation with information support. Conclusions: Armed with the results of above mentioned, the need of supports, in terms of information, tool, affective, for the caregiver burden of dementia family members is strong and not satisfied. Thus, to bridge the gap of the demand and satisfaction between dementia family members and multiple aspects supports is urgent.