Open AccessA Brief, 6-Item Scale for Caregiver Grief in Dementia Caregiving
Author(s) -
Tau Ming Liew,
Philip Yap
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the gerontologist/the gerontologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1758-5341
pISSN - 0016-9013
DOI - 10.1093/geront/gny161
Subject(s) - grief , psychology , family caregivers , equating , scale (ratio) , confirmatory factor analysis , dementia , complicated grief , caregiver burden , clinical psychology , psychiatry , statistics , developmental psychology , gerontology , medicine , structural equation modeling , mathematics , physics , disease , pathology , quantum mechanics , rasch model
Caregivers of persons with dementia (PWD) can experience loss and grief long before the death of the person. Although such experience of caregiver grief is measurable, available scales (such as the Marwit-Meuser Caregiver Grief Inventory, MM-CGI) are lengthy and have overlaps with other caregiving constructs. We developed a briefer scale that captures the essence of caregiver grief-with comparable psychometric properties and total score to MM-CGI, as well as less overlap with other caregiving constructs.