RT Journal Article
T1 Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Caregiver Burden Inventory
A1 Vázquez González, Fernando Lino
A1 Otero Otero, Patricia
A1 Simón, Miguel Ángel
A1 Bueno Palomino, Ana María
A1 Blanco Seoane, Vanessa
K1 Caregiver Burden Inventory
K1 Psychometric properties
K1 Internal consistency
K1 Factor analysis
K1 Burden
K1 Caregivers
K1 Spanish
AB Although the Caregiver Burden Inventory (CBI) is the most widely used multidimensional burden instrument for assessing perceived burden of caregivers, there is no data on its psychometric properties in Spanish, nor on caregivers of dependent persons with various diseases. The objective of this study was to translate the CBI into Spanish and validate it in caregivers of dependent persons with various diseases. Trained evaluators administered the CBI and assessed emotional distress and probable mental disorder in 201 caregivers (87.1% women, mean age 56.2 years). The internal consistency of the CBI was 0.89 (0.74–0.83 among the subscales). There was a significant correlation of emotional distress with both the total burden and each subscale (p < 0.001 in all cases). A total score of 39 and scores of 16, 9, 8, 4, and 2 in burden per time dedicated to care, personal life burden, physical burden, social burden, and emotional burden were suitable cut-off points to discriminate caregivers with probable mental disorder (sensitivity = 63.0%–75.6%, specificity = 63.4%–74.4%). To achieve a greater goodness of fit, the model was re-specified, resulting in a shortened (15-item) instrument. The internal consistency reliability coefficients of the 15-item CBI were satisfactory (Cronbach α = 0.83; 0.77–0.86 among the subscales). Within the 15-item CBI, emotional distress was significantly correlated with the total burden, personal life burden, physical burden, social burden (p < 0.001 in all those cases), and emotional burden (p = 0.001). A total score of 25 and scores of 12, 5, 5, 3, and 1, respectively, in the subscales were identified as cut-off points to discriminate caregivers with probable mental disorder (sensitivity = 46.2%–70.6%, specificity = 43.9%–79.3%). Therefore, the 15-item CBI validly measured caregiver burden with better fit and more parsimoniously than the original CBI
PB MDPI
SN 1661-7827
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/21028
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/21028
LA eng
NO Vázquez, F.L.; Otero, P.; Simón, M.A.; Bueno, A.M.; Blanco, V. Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Caregiver Burden Inventory. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16, 217
NO Spin-off of the University of Santiago de Compostela “Xuntos. Psychological and Psychiatric Care” (2013-CE081-4)
DS Minerva
RD 27 abr 2026