title: Adaptation and validation of the Caregiver Burden Inventory for use with caregivers of elderly individuals.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to adapt and validate the Caregiver Burden Inventory for use with caregivers of older adults in Brazil.
  
  
  METHODS
  methodological study involving initial translation, synthesis of translations, back translation, expert committee review, pre-testing, submission of the final version to the original authors, and assessment of the inventory's psychometric properties. The inventory assesses five dimensions of caregiver burden: time-dependence, developmental, physical, social and emotional dimensions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  a total of 120 family caregivers took part in the study. All care-receivers were older adults dependent on assistance to perform activities of daily living, and lived in the central region of the city of Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil. Cronbach's alpha value for the inventory was 0.936, and the Pearson correlation coefficient for the relationship between the scores obtained on the Caregiver Burden Inventory and the Burden Interview was 0.814. The intraclass correlation coefficient was 0.941, and the value of Student's T-test comparing test and retest scores was 0.792.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the instrument presented adequate reliability and the suitability of its items and factors was confirmed in this study.
authors: aff1.
authors: Daiany Borghetti
authors: DB
authors: Valer
authors: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
authors: Marinês
authors: M
authors: Aires
authors: Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
authors: Fernanda Lais
authors: FL
authors: Fengler
authors: Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
authors: Lisiane Manganelli Girardi
authors: LM
authors: Paskulin
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017028:Caregivers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017281:Cost of Illness; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D057566:Self Report; D014177:Translations