ArticleAging & mental health2017
The role of compassion, suffering, and intrusive thoughts in dementia caregiver depression.
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- A systematic review of family carers' experience of compassion when caring for older adults.BMC geriatrics · 2026Pooled it
- Empathy and Psychological Outcomes in Informal Caregivers of Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Pooled it
- Patient-reported assessment of compassion in Spanish: a systematic review.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Conceptualizations of compassion in the context of dementia caregiving: A scoping review protocol.PloS one · 2026Article
- Rewriting the Story of Mid- and Late-Life Family Caregiving: Applying a Narrative Identity Framework.The Gerontologist · 2024Article
- Compassion Fatigue and Perceived Social Support among Polish Nurses.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Depression among caregivers of patients with dementia: Associative factors and management approaches.World journal of psychiatry · 2022Review
- When Distress Becomes Somatic: Dementia Family Caregivers' Distress and Genetic Vulnerability to Pain and Sleep Problems.The Gerontologist · 2019Article
- Well-being in dementia: a cross-sectional dyadic study of the impact of multiple dimensions of strain on persons living with dementia and their family care partners.International psychogeriatrics · 2019Article
- Feeling Relieved After the Death of a Family Member With Dementia: Associations With Postbereavement Adjustment.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2019Article
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- A mindfulness-based multicomponent caregiver intervention (PAACC): objectives, study design, and cohort description.Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.)Article
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Abstract
objectivesExposure to suffering of a relative or friend increases the risk for psychological and physical morbidity. However, little is known about the mechanisms that account for this effect. We test a theoretical model that identifies intrusive thoughts as a mediator of the relation between perceived physical and psychological suffering of the care recipient and caregiver depression. We also assess the role of compassion as a moderator of the relation between perceived suffering and intrusive thoughts.
methodsHispanic and African American caregivers (N = 108) of persons with dementia were assessed three times within a one-year period. Using multilevel modeling, we assessed the mediating role of intrusive thoughts in the relation between perceived physical and psychological suffering and CG depression, and we tested moderated mediation to assess the role of caregiver compassion in the relation between perceived suffering and intrusive thoughts.
resultsThe effects of perceived physical suffering on depression were completely mediated through intrusive thoughts, and compassion moderated the relation between physical suffering and intrusive thoughts. Caregivers who had greater compassion reported more intrusive thoughts even when perceived physical suffering of the CR was low. For perceived psychological suffering, the effects of suffering on depression were partially mediated through intrusive thoughts. DISCUSSION: Understanding the role of intrusive thoughts and compassion in familial relationships provides new insights into mechanisms driving caregiver well-being and presents new opportunities for intervention.
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