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Hsueh-Fen S Kao1, Gayle J Acton
1School of Nursing, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Abstract:
Families in Taiwan bear a heavy burden in caring for their elders. This paper presents a conceptualization of caregiver burden and data on the psychometric properties of the Caregiver Burden Scale. A convenient sample of 148 Taiwanese caregivers of elders with a stroke was recruited. Factor analysis showed three factors, awareness of degeneration of both care receiver and giver; time and finance constraints and readjustment; and guilt and blame, which accounted for 55.85% of the variance; Cronbach's alpha was .92. Some aspects of caregiving unique to caregivers and issues in the measurement of burden in Taiwan are presented.
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