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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2005 Jun;20(6):512–522. doi: 10.1002/gps.1318

Table 2.

Caregiver burden and psychiatric symptoms (n = 27)

Measure Scale range Sample range Sample Mean (SD) n (%) Above threshold for potential caseness
Objective burden
 Household management Tasks 0–11 0–10 4.07 (2.84)
 Nursing tasks 0–8 0–4 0.69 (1.12)
 Lifestyle constraints 1–5 2.86–4.0 3.23 (0.35)
 MCI-behavioral stressors 0–5 0.03–2.0 0.87 (0.48)
Subjective burden
 Subjective caregiver burden 1–5 1.25–4.0 2.22 (0.68)
 Reaction to MCI-related behaviors 0–4 0–1.27 0.47 (0.34)
Psychiatric morbidity
 Depression symptoms 0–60 0–34 8.48 (8.87) 3 (11%)
 Anxiety symptoms 20–80 23–56 29.40 (8.42) 3 (11%)