The Structure of Burden of Caregivers' Providing Nursing Care to Individuals with Higher Cortical Dysfunctions : Used of the Burden Interview Scale

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It aimed at examining the structure of the care burden of the family who provide care to individuals with higher cortical dysfunctions by using The Burden Interview (BI Scale, Zarit:1980). All samples were convenient samples, from five caregiver's associations. The research design was a cross-sectional survey with self-administered questionnaire. The questionnaire included a set of items that assessed basic demographics of caretakers and caregivers, BI Scale (Japanese version) of caregivers. Four factors were extracted as a result of the factor exploratory analysis. Then, as for the care burden of the family it suggested that it was constructed from four sides of (1) A negative emotion, (2) The limitation of the daily life, (3) Emotional pressure, (4) Care will. It was shown by these results that the structure of the demented elderly and similarity had it in the structure of the caregivers burden of the persons with traumatic brain injury.