title: Caregivers' resilience is independent from the clinical symptoms of dementia.
abstract: Resilience is the capacity for successful adaptation when faced with the stress of adversity. We aimed to investigate the relationship between caregivers' resilience and the sociodemographic and clinical factors of people with dementia. Cross-sectional assessment of 58 people with dementia and their caregiver dyads showed that most caregivers were female adult children. The caregivers reported moderate to higher levels of resilience, lower levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms and moderate levels of burden. Resilience was not related to the caregiver's gender (p = 0.883), nor clinical (p = 0.807) or emotional problems (p = 0.420). The regression showed that resilience was related to the caregiver's quality of life (p < 0.01) and inversely associated with their depressive symptoms (p < 0.01). There was no relationship between caregivers' resilience and the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of people with dementia. We can assume that resilience is an individual characteristic. Support groups should also focus on the factors that may increase resilience among caregivers.
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Psiquiatria, Centro para Doenças de Alzheimer e outras Desordens Mentais na Velhice, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dias
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Departamento de Sociologia e Ciência Política, Florianópolis SC, Brasil.
authors.forename: José Pedro
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Simões-Neto
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Psiquiatria, Centro para Doenças de Alzheimer e outras Desordens Mentais na Velhice, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Raquel Luiza
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Psiquiatria, Centro para Doenças de Alzheimer e outras Desordens Mentais na Velhice, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Maria Fernanda Barroso de
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Sousa
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Psiquiatria, Centro para Doenças de Alzheimer e outras Desordens Mentais na Velhice, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Maria Alice Tourinho
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Baptista
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Psiquiatria, Centro para Doenças de Alzheimer e outras Desordens Mentais na Velhice, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Isabel Barbeito
authors.initials: IB
authors.lastname: Lacerda
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Psiquiatria, Centro para Doenças de Alzheimer e outras Desordens Mentais na Velhice, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Nathalia Ramos Santos
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Psiquiatria, Centro para Doenças de Alzheimer e outras Desordens Mentais na Velhice, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Marcia Cristina Nascimento
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Dourado
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003704:Dementia / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011788:Quality of Life; D012044:Regression Analysis; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors