Oh Juyeon, Kim Jung A
a Division of Nursing , Hanyang University , Seoul , South Korea and.
b Cell Therapy Center for Intractable Disorders , Hanyang University Hospital , Seoul , South Korea.
Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener. 2018 Feb;19(1-2):50-56. doi: 10.1080/21678421.2017.1385636. Epub 2017 Oct 16.
The Zarit Burden Interview has been used in many studies to assess caregiver burden in family caregivers of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, but the factor structure of the Zarit Burden Interview in the caregivers of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients is unknown. The aim of this study was to explore the factor structure of the Zarit Burden Interview in family caregivers of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients using exploratory factor analysis.
The exploratory factor analysis was performed using generalized least squares with oblique rotation in a sample of 202 family caregivers.
Three factors had an eigenvalue greater than 1 and accounted for 60.33% of the total variance. The three factors were named as follows: (factor 1) "Social restrictions" (items 2, 3, and 10-15); (factor 2) "Self-criticism" (items 20-21); and (factor 3) "Anger and frustration" (items 1, 4-6, 9, and 16-19). The correlation between factors 1 and 3 was much higher (r = 0.79) than that between factors 1 and 2 (r = 0.14) or factors 2 and 3 (r = 0.15).
The findings of this study enriched our understanding of several meaningful dimensions of the caregiving burden in caregivers of an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis population and provided opportunities for future intervention.
Zarit负担访谈已在许多研究中用于评估肌萎缩侧索硬化症患者家庭照料者的照料负担，但Zarit负担访谈在肌萎缩侧索硬化症患者照料者中的因素结构尚不清楚。本研究的目的是使用探索性因素分析来探索Zarit负担访谈在肌萎缩侧索硬化症患者家庭照料者中的因素结构。
在202名家庭照料者样本中，使用广义最小二乘法和斜交旋转进行探索性因素分析。
三个因素的特征值大于1，占总方差的60.33%。这三个因素命名如下：（因素1）“社会限制”（条目2、3和10 - 15）；（因素2）“自我批评”（条目20 - 21）；以及（因素3）“愤怒和沮丧”（条目1、4 - 6、9和16 - 19）。因素1和3之间的相关性（r = 0.79）远高于因素1和2之间的相关性（r = 0.14）或因素2和3之间的相关性（r = 0.15）。
本研究结果丰富了我们对肌萎缩侧索硬化症患者照料者照料负担几个有意义维度的理解，并为未来的干预提供了机会。
