Yilmaz Aysegul, Turan Engin, Gundogar Duru
Psychiatry Department, Ankara University, Turkey.
Australas J Ageing. 2009 Mar;28(1):16-21. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-6612.2008.00319.x.
The aim of this study was to investigate the factors related to burnout in the family caregivers of Alzheimer's disease.
Subjects included in the study were 44 Alzheimer's disease patients and their primary caregivers. Patients were evaluated with Mini Mental State Examination, Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, Physical Self-Maintenance Scale and Geriatric Depression Scale, and carers were administered Maslach Burnout Inventory, Ways of Coping Scale, Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale and Hamilton Depression Rating Scale.
The emotional exhaustion of caregivers revealed a significant relationship with the caregivers' anxiety, submissive approach for coping and the patient's self-maintenance. Depersonalisation was found to be related to the depression score of the patient.
This study may serve to increase clinicians' awareness of burnout in relatives of dementia patients. It points to the fact that research for determining the causes and consequences of burnout in the family caregivers is warranted.
本研究旨在调查与阿尔茨海默病家庭照料者职业倦怠相关的因素。
纳入研究的对象为44名阿尔茨海默病患者及其主要照料者。对患者进行简易精神状态检查表、简明精神病评定量表、身体自我维持量表和老年抑郁量表评估，对照料者实施马氏职业倦怠量表、应对方式量表、汉密尔顿焦虑评定量表和汉密尔顿抑郁评定量表。
照料者的情感耗竭与照料者的焦虑、顺从应对方式以及患者的自我维持显著相关。去人格化与患者的抑郁得分相关。
本研究可能有助于提高临床医生对痴呆患者亲属职业倦怠的认识。它指出有必要开展研究以确定家庭照料者职业倦怠的原因和后果。
