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ArticleThe Gerontologist2025

Caregiver Assessment of Socioemotional Functioning in People Living With Neurodegenerative Disease (Part 2): Concurrent Validity and Test-Retest Reliability of a New Measure.

Casey K Brown, Marcela C Otero, Elizabeth A Ascher, Jennifer Merrilees, Robert W Levenson

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Casey K BrownDepartment of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1827-7521
Marcela C OteroDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2280-4555
Elizabeth A AscherDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
Jennifer MerrileesDepartment of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0907-0139
Robert W LevensonDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.

Funding

TDP-43 Loss-of-Function: Biology to BiomarkersP01AG019724 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Jennifer Merrilees · 2002 to 2026
$67.2M
EMOTION AND AGE--REACTION, REGULATION AND UNDERSTANDINGR37AG017766 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI LEVENSON, ROBERT WAYNE · 2000 to 2009
$3.7M
Interpersonal Emotion Regulation in Neurodegenerative Disease: Pathways to Caregiver HealthR00AG073617 · NIA · GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY · PI BROWN, CASEY LEIGH · 2022 to 2025
$1.2M
NIA NIH HHS P01 AG019724NIA NIH HHS P01AG019724NIA NIH HHS R00 AG073617NIA NIH HHS R37 AG017766NIH HHS R37AG017766
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND

objectivesCare recipients with neurodegenerative disease can have socioemotional impairments that are challenging for their caregivers. We examine the concurrent and incremental validity of a novel informant-rated measure of care recipient functioning, the Caregiver Assessment of Socioemotional Functioning (CASEF), by examining links with clinician-rated behavioral problems, neuropsychiatric symptoms, and disease severity, as well as caregivers' reported burden and relationship quality. We also examine test-retest reliability of the CASEF. RESEARCH DESIGN AND

methodsInformal caregivers (N = 177) of individuals with neurodegenerative disease reported on their care recipients' socioemotional functioning and completed structured interviews with clinicians to assess care recipients' disease severity and neuropsychiatric symptoms. Care recipients' behavioral symptoms were evaluated with clinician rating scales. Another sample of caregivers (N = 61) repeated the CASEF 4-6 months following an initial administration.

resultsCASEF subscales evidenced concurrent validity with other measures of care recipients' socioemotional functioning, disease severity, neuropsychiatric symptoms, and behavioral symptoms. CASEF subscales also evidenced incremental validity by accounting for significant additional variance in caregiver burden and relationship quality after accounting for care recipients' neuropsychiatric and behavioral symptoms. Finally, CASEF subscales demonstrated adequate to excellent test-retest reliability. DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS: Findings highlight the validity and reliability of the CASEF. Coupled with findings from Part 1 of this series (which established CASEF's construct validity), these findings support using the CASEF in clinical and research settings to assess changes in care recipient socioemotional functioning over time and to examine links between care recipient socioemotional changes and caregiver burden, health, and well-being.

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CaregiversNeurodegenerative DiseasesAdultAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPsychometricsReproducibility of ResultsSeverity of Illness IndexDementiaEmotional reactivityEmotion recognitionInformant-reportsPsychometrics

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PMID39908063
PMCPMC12048794

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