How useful is the EQ-5D in assessing the impact of caring for people with Alzheimer’s disease?

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• 作者：Catherine Reed ; Annabel Barrett ; Jeremie Lebrec…
• 关键词：Alzheimer’s disease ; Caregiver burden ; Europe ; Health ; related quality of life ; Informal care ; Observational study
• 刊名：Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：15
• 期：1
• 全文大小：657KB
• 刊物主题：Quality of Life Research; Quality of Life Research;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1477-7525
• 卷排序：15

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BackgroundThe impact on informal caregivers of caring for people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia can be substantial, but it remains unclear which measures(s) best assess such impact. Our objective was to use data from the GERAS study to assess the ability of the EuroQol 5-dimension questionnaire (EQ-5D) to measure the impact on caregivers of caring for people with AD dementia and to examine correlations between EQ-5D and caregiver burden.