ArticleInternational journal of geriatric psychiatry2009
The moderating role of personal mastery on the relationship between caregiving status and multiple dimensions of fatigue.
Article in International journal of geriatric psychiatry, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Systematic review of the multidimensional fatigue symptom inventory-short form.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2015Pooled it
- Digital Peer Support Intervention for Family Caregivers of Individuals With Neuromuscular Disease: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Trial
- Daily stressors, positive events, and daily fatigue among dementia family caregivers.Aging & mental health · 2025Article
- Learning to PERSEVERE: A pilot study of peer mentor support and caregiver education in Lewy body dementia.Parkinsonism & related disorders · 2023Article
- Gaining Longitudinal Accounts of Carers' Experiences Using IPA and Photograph Elicitation.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Relationship between Mastery and Caregiving Competence in Protecting against Burden, Anxiety and Depression among Caregivers of Frail Older Adults.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2018Article
- Article
- Resting spontaneous activity in the default mode network predicts performance decline during prolonged attention workload.NeuroImage · 2015Article
- The Impact of Living Arrangements on Dementia Caregivers' Sleep Quality.American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias · 2015Article
- Dementia behavioural and psychiatric symptoms: effect on caregiver's sleep.Journal of clinical nursing · 2013Article
- Characterizing Fatigue: The Effects of Ethnicity and Acculturation.Journal of applied biobehavioral research · 2012Article
- Poorer self-rated health is associated with elevated inflammatory markers among older adults.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2011Article
- Effects of Alzheimer caregiving on allostatic load.Journal of health psychology · 2011Article
- The Effects of the MORE Wisdom Resources on Spousal Caregivers' Life Satisfaction: An Application of the Resilience Model.Clinical gerontologistArticle
- Psychometric Evaluation of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Fatigue-Short Form Across Diverse Populations.Nursing researchArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors.
Funding
Abstract
objectiveA substantial proportion of chronically-stressed spousal dementia caregivers report fatigue. The objective of this study was to examine whether personal mastery moderates the relationship between caregiving status (caregiver/non-caregiver) and multiple dimensions of fatigue.
methodsSeventy-three elderly Alzheimer's caregivers and 41 elderly non-caregivers completed the Multidimensional Fatigue Symptom Inventory-Short Form (MFSI-SF) and questionnaires assessing mastery.
resultsRegression analyses indicated that global fatigue was significantly higher for caregivers (M = 38.0 +/- 21.0) compared to non-caregivers (M = 18.2 +/- 10.4). However, personal mastery moderated the relation between caregiving status and global fatigue (t = -2.03, df = 107, p = 0.045), such that for those with low mastery, caregivers' fatigue scores were 18.1 points higher than non-caregivers, and for those with high mastery, this difference was only 7.5 points. For specific dimensions of fatigue, mastery moderated the relations between caregiving status and both emotional (t = -2.01, df = 107, p = 0.047) and physical (t = -2.51, df = 107, p = 0.014) fatigue. Specifically, association between caregiving status and emotional fatigue was greater when mastery was low than when mastery was high. Caregiving status was significantly associated with physical fatigue when mastery was low, but not when mastery was high. Significant main effects were found between mastery and general fatigue and vigor.
conclusionGiven the proportion of fatigued caregivers and the impact fatigue has on health; these findings provide important information regarding mastery's relationship with fatigue and may inform interventions aiming to alleviate fatigue in caregivers.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.