%0 Journal Article
%T Predictors of caregivers¡¯ burden of Parkinson¡¯s disease in India: experience of a tertiary care center in India
%A Agrawal V
%A Goyal V
%A Shukla G
%A Behari M
%J Journal of Parkinsonism & Restless Legs Syndrome
%D 2012
%I 
%R http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JPRLS.S37448
%X edictors of caregivers¡¯ burden of Parkinson¡¯s disease in India: experience of a tertiary care center in India Original Research (515) Total Article Views Authors: Agrawal V, Goyal V, Shukla G, Behari M Published Date November 2012 Volume 2012:2 Pages 59 - 65 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JPRLS.S37448 Received: 28 August 2012 Accepted: Published: 06 November 2012 Vikas Agrawal,1 Vinay Goyal,2 Garima Shukla,2 Madhuri Behari2 1Department of Neurology, Yashoda Hospital, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India; 2Department of Neurology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India Introduction: Parkinson¡¯s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by increasing dependence on caregivers for activities of daily living that imposes a major burden upon the patients¡¯ caregiver. Caregiver burden (CB) refers to the physical, mental, and socioeconomic problems experienced by the caregivers of chronic patients. Patients and methods: This is a onetime cross-sectional observational study carried out in the movement disorder clinic of a tertiary referral center in India. Persons with PD were interviewed and information was collected regarding demographic and clinical details, treatment taken, and presence of non-motor features such as dementia, psychosis, depression, etc, on a pre-tested format and their caregivers were interviewed for self-perceived burden using Zerit¡¯s caregivers¡¯ burden inventory. Results: We interviewed 91 persons with PD (71 [78%] men, 20 [22%] women) with their primary caregivers. The age of the patients ranged from 25 to 75 years (mean 56.66 ¡À 11.83 years). After regression analysis, depression in patients (beta = 0.352, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.275 to 0.790), high UPDRS-motor scores (beta = 0.255, 95% CI: 0.108 to 0.532), and presence of sleep disturbances in the atient (beta = 0.206, 95% CI: 0.817 to 11.823) were associated with increased caregiver burden and the presence of multiple caregivers was associated with lower caregiver burden (beta =  0.311, 95% CI:  10.155 to  3.436). Conclusion: The total number of caregivers was found to be an important predictor for reducing CB. Multiple caregivers is a phenomenon which has not been studied till now. Other factors which were found to have adverse predictive effect on caregiver burden are presence of depression, high UPDRS-motor scores, and sleep disturbances in patients.
%K caregiver
%K burden
%K Parkinson¡¯s disease
%K predictors
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