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ArticleAmerican journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias

Impact of COVID-19 on Dementia Caregivers and Factors Associated With their Anxiety Symptoms.

Yeji Hwang, LaShauna M Connell, Anjali R Rajpara, Nancy A Hodgson

Registry-linked trialOpen access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03682185 (The Role of Palliative Care Interventions to Reduce Circadian Rhythm Disorders in Persons With Dementia), which is not on this map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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26citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
9.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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.

NCT03682185 phase3completednot on this map

The Role of Palliative Care Interventions to Reduce Circadian Rhythm Disorders in Persons With Dementia: The Healthy Patterns Study

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of PennsylvaniaRan2016 to 2021Enrolled421ConditionsDementia, Alzheimer Disease, Circadian Rhythm Disorders, Circadian Rhythm Sleep DisorderArmsAttention-Control Condition, Timed Activity Intervention
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. The DREAMS START intervention for sleep in dementia: Long-term follow-up of a randomized controlled trial.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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  5. Factors Associated With Shifts in Caregiving During COVID-19.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2025
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  8. 2024 Alzheimer's disease facts and figures.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024
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  11. Change in Caregiving to Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Differences by Dementia Status.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2023
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  14. COVID-19-Related Changes in Assistance Networks for U.S. Older Adults With and Without Dementia.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023
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  15. "A Raw Blessing" - Caregivers' Experiences Providing Care to Persons Living with Dementia in the COVID-19 Pandemic.The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yeji HwangUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1513-5242
LaShauna M ConnellUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Anjali R RajparaUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Nancy A HodgsonUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8862-9986
University of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

The Role of Palliative Care Interventions to Reduce Circadian Rhythm Disorders in Persons with DementiaR01NR015226 · NINR · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI HODGSON, NANCY A · 2016 to 2020
$3.0M
NINR NIH HHS R01 NR015226
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Little is known about the family experience of caregiving for persons living with dementia (PLWD) at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of COVID-19 on concerns of current family caregivers of PLWD. Study participants were recruited from the parent study, Healthy Patterns Clinical Trial (NCT03682185). Data was collected from 34 caregivers via semi-structured telephone interviews. Over 70% of the study participants reported worrying about spreading COVID-19 to the PLWD, 41% reported they had taken on additional caregiving duties for others in their family since COVID-19, and 62% reported one or more anxiety symptoms. Dementia caregivers who reported anxiety symptoms reported lower scores on functional independence of their care recipients compared to dementia caregivers who did not report anxiety symptoms (

Indexed as

COVID-19DementiaAnxietyCaregiversHumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2anxietycaregiversCOVID-19dementiafamily caregivers

Identifiers

PMID33853394
PMCPMC8573819
OpenAlexW3155588594

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