ArticleRisk management and healthcare policy2021
Using the Apriori Algorithm to Explore Caregivers' Depression by the Combination of the Patients with Dementia and Their Caregivers.
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- Caregivers' Burden on Patients with Dementia Having Multiple Chronic Diseases.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2024Article
- Relationship of Psychological Flexibility and Mindfulness to Caregiver Burden, and Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms in Caregivers of People with Dementia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Care Need Combinations for Dementia Patients with Multiple Chronic Diseases.Psychology research and behavior management · 2023Article
- Exploring disease interrelationships in older inpatients: a single-centre, retrospective study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Depression among caregivers of patients with dementia: Associative factors and management approaches.World journal of psychiatry · 2022Review
- Applying Apriori algorithm to explore long-term care services usage status-Variables based on the combination of patients with dementia and their caregivers.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeThe purpose of this study was to identify the caring scenarios that result in severe depression in caregivers caring for dementia patients. PATIENTS AND
methodsA cross-sectional study with 1111 dementia patients and their caregivers in Taiwan from October 2015 to January 2020 was conducted. Gender, age, type of dementia, clinical dementia rating, walking ability, mood symptoms, behavioral symptoms, and psychological symptoms were the variables from the dementia patients. Age, relation to the patient, employment, type of primary care, frequency of care, mood symptoms, and the score from the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale were the variables from the caregivers. A comprehensive viewpoint of both dementia patients and their caregivers was evaluated by the Apriori algorithm to find the attributes resulting in different caregiving depressions.
resultsForty-seven rules were found with 18 rules of mild depressive symptomatology, 17 rules of moderate depressive symptomatology, and 12 rules of severe depressive symptomatology. A total of 7 general rules were summarized to be the severe depressive symptomatology. The results showed that an unemployed or retired caregiver with the mood symptoms such as helplessness, anger, emotional liability, or anxiety who took care of AD patients or AD patients with a moderate severity would have severe depression. Increased care frequencies (≥6 days per week) and multiple mood problems from caregivers result in severe depression. The composition of adult children, patients' aggression, and caregivers' helplessness as well as the combinations of male patients aged 75-84 years with the caregiver's mood of helplessness or nervousness and hopelessness were highly associated with severe depression.
conclusionFor those caring for AD patients, severe depression was associated with the combination of different parameters to constitute each of these seven scenarios. Unlike previous studies which often evaluated one or two variables related to caregiver's depression, this study provided a more comprehensive viewpoint that enabled the collaborative team to efficiently identify and manage different scenarios by summarizing the rules of caregivers with severe depression from a systematic viewpoint.
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