ArticleJournal of clinical nursing2013
Dementia behavioural and psychiatric symptoms: effect on caregiver's sleep.
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- The Association Between Caregiver Psychosocial Factors and Depressive Symptoms in People With Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Pooled it
- Correlates of Sleep Disturbance Experienced by Informal Caregivers of Persons Living with Dementia: A Systematic Review.Clinical gerontologistPooled it
- Different family caregiver- and care recipient-related factors are associated with the cost of care in the early, mild, and moderate stages of Alzheimer's disease in Finland: A 5-year ALSOVA study.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2026Article
- Caregiver outcomes related to sleep disturbances in persons living with cognitive impairment.Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.) · 2026Article
- "Better Sleep Means I'm Better Able to Provide Care": Caregivers' Perceived Impacts of an Internet-Delivered Insomnia Intervention.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2026Article
- Predicting Sleep Quality in Family Caregivers of Dementia Patients From Diverse Populations Using Wearable Sensor Data.Computers, informatics, nursing : CIN · 2025Article
- Sleep and Caregiver Burden Among Caregivers of Persons Living With Dementia: A Scoping Review.Innovation in aging · 2024Article
- Sleep Deficiency by Caregiving Status: Findings From Nationally Representative Data.Western journal of nursing research · 2023Article
- Depression, anxiety and insomnia in Chinese older adults and their family caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic: an actor-partner interdependence model approach.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- The associations between working conditions and subjective sleep quality among female migrant care workers.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Discrepancy between self-reported and objective sleep duration among dementia caregivers and noncaregivers.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2022Article
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- Family Caregivers of People with Dementia Have Poor Sleep Quality: A Nationwide Population-Based Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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- Disrupted sleep and associated factors in Australian dementia caregivers: a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2020Article
- Sleep quality prediction in caregivers using physiological signals.Computers in biology and medicine · 2019Article
- Effect of caffeine on sleep and behaviour in nursing home residents with dementia.European geriatric medicine · 2018Article
- The Relationship Between "What We Believe" and "How We Care" Among Daughters Caring for a Parent With Dementia.American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias · 2017Article
- How Adult Caregiving Impacts Sleep: a Systematic Review.Current sleep medicine reports · 2016Article
- Caregiving for a loved one with dementia at the end of life: an emergent theory of rediscovering.American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias · 2015Article
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Abstract
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objectivesTo examine caregiver sleep quality, especially in relation to the daytime and night-time behaviours and psychological symptoms exhibited by persons with dementias.
backgroundCaregivers of persons with dementias experience poorer sleep in comparison with noncaregivers, and poor sleep is related to negative health outcomes. The reasons for caregivers' poor sleep are complex, and it is known that the night-time behaviours of the persons with dementia contribute to caregiver sleep disruption. However, the frequency of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia has hitherto not been sufficiently explored as a contributing factor to poor caregiver sleep.
designA nonexperimental cross-sectional design.
methodsEighty caregivers completed questionnaires on the frequency of behavioural and psychological symptoms of the persons with dementia, the Dementia Severity Rating Scale, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale.
resultsPoor sleep was reported with awakenings by the persons with dementia occurring for more than half of the caregivers. The frequency of behaviours and symptoms did not make a unique contribution to the variance of caregivers' global sleep. The frequency of behaviours, and specifically of agitation and apathy, contributed to the variance in subjective sleep quality, as defined by the caregivers' appraisal of their sleep.
conclusionsThe findings demonstrate the relationship between (1) daytime and night-time behaviours of persons with dementias and (2) their caregivers' sleep quality and emphasise the complexity of the factors that contribute to caregiver sleep quality. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: These findings suggest that nurses should be cognizant of the relationship between daytime behaviours of the persons with dementia and the caregivers' appraisal of their sleep, realising that appraising one's sleep as poor can be a contributing factor to perpetuating sleep problems. Interventions aimed at helping the caregiver manage the persons with dementia's agitation or the caregiver's emotional response to persons with dementia apathy may improve caregivers' perception of their sleep.
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