Risk factors of elder abuse in a community dwelling Spanish sample.
We analyzed the discriminative capacity of several risk factors for elder abuse and neglect, in order to identify what characteristics distinguish between caregivers with a high or low risk of abuse and neglect. Forty-five caregivers of relatives with dementia participated. The combination of caregiving impact, frequency of aggressive behaviors by care-recipients, stress related to provocative and aggressive behaviors, the frequency of provocative behaviors, interpersonal burden, autoefficiency expectations, quantity of help received and depression classify correctly as risk factors in 90.9% of the cases. This study permits us to identify what characteristics distinguish between caregivers with a high or low risk of abuse and neglect and caregivers.
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Departamento de Psicología Biológica y de la Salud, Facultad de Psicología, Campus Universitario de Cantoblanco, Carretera de Colmenar Viejo, Km. 15,300, 28049 Madrid, Spain. gema.perez@uam.es
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D000368:Aged; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D017028:Caregivers; D003153:Community Health Services; D017281:Cost of Illness; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D004552:Elder Abuse / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires