RT Journal Article
T1 Caregiver Burden and Sleep Quality in Dependent People’s Family Caregivers
A1 Simón, Miguel Ángel
A1 Bueno Palomino, Ana María
A1 Otero Otero, Patricia
A1 Blanco Seoane, Vanessa
A1 Vázquez González, Fernando Lino
K1 Caregiver burden
K1 Sleep quality
K1 Family caregivers
K1 Long-term care
AB This study examined the relationship between caregiver burden and sleep quality in dependent people’s family caregivers. A cross-sectional study was carried out with 201 dependent people’s family caregivers and 92 non-caregivers controls. Participants completed the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), the Caregiver Burden Inventory (CBI), and an ad-hoc questionnaire to collect sociodemographic data. Based on CBI scores, subjects were categorized into three groups: family caregivers with high levels of perceived burden, family caregivers with low and medium levels of perceived burden and non-caregiver controls. There were significant differences among the groups in the PSQI total (F = 40.39; p < 0.001), subjective sleep quality (F = 25.55; p < 0.001), sleep latency (F = 16.99; p < 0.001), sleep disturbances (F = 14.90; p < 0.001), use of sleep medications (F = 6.94; p < 0.01) and daytime dysfunction (F = 20.12; p < 0.001). These differences were found only between the caregivers with high levels of perceived burden and the other two groups (p < 0.05). There were also significant differences between the groups in sleep duration (F = 18.34; p < 0.001) and habitual sleep efficiency (F = 24.24; p < 0.001). In these dependent measures, the differences were found in all the pairs examined (p < 0.05). These results suggest that caregiver burden is related to sleep quality, so that caregivers with greater perceived burden have a worse sleep quality
PB MDPI
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/21030
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/21030
LA eng
NO Simón, M.A.; Bueno, A.M.; Otero, P.; Blanco, V.; Vázquez, F.L. Caregiver Burden and Sleep Quality in Dependent People’s Family Caregivers. J. Clin. Med. 2019, 8, 1072
NO Spin-off of the University of Santiago de Compostela “Xuntos. Psychological and Psychiatric Care” (2013-CE081-4)
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026