From: Caring for family members with chronic physical illness: A critical review of caregiver literature
Outcome (QOL) | Single Measurement | Composite Measure |
---|---|---|
Quality of life | 1. Caregiver quality of life index – cancer [28] | 1.1) Stress, 2) Anxiety, 3) Depression, 4) Health [7] |
2. Multidimensional quality of life scale – cancer [33] | 2.1) Physical health, 2) Emotional health, | |
3. Quality of life index [32] | 3) Use of psychotropic drugs, | |
4) Caregivers' social life, | ||
5) Financial status [30] | ||
1.1) Depression, 2) Life satisfaction, 3) Health [12] | ||
Adaptational outcome (Adaptation) | 2.1) Caregiver's level of life satisfaction, | |
2) Depression | ||
3) Subjective symptoms of stress [13] | ||
Mental health outcome | 1.1) Depression, 2) Quality of life [29] | |
Life satisfaction | 1. 8-item, open-ended questionnaire [21] | |
Stress outcome (stress response, distress) | 1. Brief symptom inventory [34] | 1.1) Yielding of role, 2) Physical health, 3) Anxiety [24] |
2.1) Anxiety, 2) Depression, 3) Stress [25] | ||
3.1) Burden, 2) Depression, 3) Anxiety [26] | ||
Emotional (Psychological) distress | 1. Profile of mood states – short form [22] | |
2. General health questionnaire [23] | ||
Health | 1. the Medical Outcome Study 36-item | 1.1) Caregiver mental health, |
Short Form Health Survey [31] | 2) Caregiver physical health [14] | |
Caregiving Burden | 1. Zarit burden scale 27 | |
Depression | 1.1) depression, 2) strain [15] |