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Objectives: familial caregivers of demented patients suffer from high levels of burden of care, but the literature is sparse regarding the prevalence and predictors of burnout in this group. burnout is composed of three dimensions: emotional exhaustion (ee), depersonalization (dp) and reduced. Predictors of burnout in familial caregivers of patients with dementia. 7,8,10,11 recently, a study conducted by takai et al. 12 found that caregiver burnout and depression were the most. Matsuda (2001) and takai et al. also found higher levels of emotional exhaustion in their sample of familial caregivers of patients with dementia. a finding of high levels of emotional exhaustion is important, since emotional exhaustion is the main burnout dimension and reflects the stress dimension of this syndrome..

Methods. the participants of this study were caregivers at a health care unit for the elderly in southern italy. an evaluation of the burden of patients with dementia on caregivers was carried out using the caregiver burden inventory (cbi) and depressive symptoms using the self-rating depression scale (sds).. Predictors of burnout in the family caregivers of alzheimer's disease: evidence from turkey. authors. aysegul yılmaz, to our knowledge this is the second study investigating burnout in family caregivers of dementia patients. knut engedal, burnout in familial caregivers of patients with dementia, revista brasileira de psiquiatria, 2012. Subjective experiences of family caregivers of patients with dementia as predictive factors of quality of life.