Subjective and Objective Caregiver Burden in Parkinson s Disease
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1 Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing (2007) Vol. 37, No. 2, Subjective and Objective Caregiver Burden in Parkinson s Disease Kim, Keum Soon, RN, PhD 1, Kim, Bog Ja, RN, PhD 2, Kim, Kyung Hee, RN, PhD 3, Choe, Myoung-Ae, RN, PhD 1, Myungsun Yi, RN, DNS 1, Yang-Sook Hah, RN, PhD 1, Sun Ju Chung, MD 4, So-Hi Kwon, BC-PCM, MSN 5 Purose. Parkinson s disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder characterized by motor disabilities and increasing deendence on others for daily life activities with consequent imact on atients and caregivers quality of life. The aim of this study was to elucidate the burden on rimary caregivers of atients with PD, and identify related factors. Methods. A cross-sectional descritive study. Seventy-six rimary caregivers of PD atients in a neurology outatient clinic, Seoul, Korea comleted structured questionnaires, of which 68 were analyzed. The structured self-reort questionnaire included (1) demograhic information on the caregivers, (2) information regarding the disease characteristics of the atients, and (3) the subjective and objective caregiver burdens as assessed on Montgomery, Gonyea, & Hooyman s scale. Results. The mean age of the caregivers was years, and souses reresented the largest roortion (47.0%). Caregivers of PD atients exerienced high levels of burden (mean scores on the subjective and objective burdens were and 34.90, resectively), which were comarable to the caregiver burdens in stroke, and higher than the caregiver burdens in general chronic disease. Older caregivers and sousal caregivers exerienced significantly higher burdens (=.004 and =.019, resectively). A greater motor disability and higher modified Hoehn and Yahr grade were related to higher caregiver burden (=.001 and =.018, resectively). Conclusion. Caring for PD atients is associated with a high level of caregiver burden. Therefore, healthcare rofessionals should identify the burden of caregivers who look after PD atients and develo comrehensive management strategies both for atients and their caregivers. Key Words : Burden, Caregiver, Parkinson s disease. INTRODUCTION Most chronically ill atients are cared for by an informal suort system comrised of family members. Caring for atients with chronic and disabling disease is associated with the caregivers exeriencing hysical and sychological distress, limitations to their ersonal and social activities, and financial burden (Choi & Eun, 2000). Parkinson s disease (PD), one of the common chronic diseases, is a rogressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by resting tremor, cogwheel rigidity, 1. Professor, The Research Institute of Nursing Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea 2. Professor, Ulsan University, Seoul, Korea 3. Professor, Chung Ang University, Seoul, Korea 4. Deartment of Neurology, Asan Medical Center 5. Associate Researcher, The Research Institute of Nursing Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Corresonding author: Kwon, So-Hi, BC-PCM, MSN, The Research Institute of Nursing Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. Suit 307, 28 Yeongeon-dong, Jongro-gu, Seoul National University, Seoul , Korea. Tel: Received December 26, 2006 ; Acceted March 12, 2007
2 Kim et al. Subjective and Objective Caregiver Burden in Parkinson s Disease 243 and bradykinesia, which result in a decreased functional status and increased hysical and sychological distress (Greenberg, Aminoff, & Simon, 2005). The majority of the research into PD has focused on the PD atients themselves, the informal caregivers of PD atients, however, have been largely ignored in research. Providing care to a family member with PD can have far-reaching effects on the caregiver s social activities, emotional health, and stress (Caa-Ahlgren & Dehlin, 2002; Edwards & Scheetz, 2002). Even though medication is initially effective at controlling atients and allowing them to function normally while making little, if any, hysical demands, the caregiver may exerience emotional stresses related to uncertainty about the rognosis. Moreover, as the disease rogresses, deendency increases as the atients exerience fluctuations in the control of their symtoms. This increases the hysical care rovided by caregivers, which increases their incidence of deression (as indicated by the use of tranquilizers) and eisodes of chronic illness (O Reilly, Finnan, Allwright, Smith, & Ben-Shlomo, 1996). Caregiver well-being has imortant imlications for caregiving outcomes, articularly in the elderly, such as the use of institutional lacement and the course of the disease (Dunkin & Anderson-Hanley, 1998). Caregiver burden has been shown to be correlated with atients deression, quality of life, and incidence of falls, and also with caregivers own satisfaction with their marital and sexual relationshi (Schrag, Hovris, Morley, Quinn, & Jahanshahi, 2006). However, there have been very few studies into familial caregivers and the burden imosed on them by PD atients in Korea. Therefore, this study aimed at elucidating both the subjective and objective burdens of Korean informal caregivers of PD atients, and identifying the related factors. METHODS Particiants and rocedure The articiants included married and cohabitating individuals who were the rimary caregiver for an individual with clinical diagnosis of PD. Particiants were recruited from atients who attended the neurology outatient clinic of a medical center in Seoul. Primary caregivers of community-dwelling PD atients were informed about the study and invited to articiate while visiting the clinic with the atients. Those who volunteered to articiate comleted the questionnaire at the outatient clinic. A nurse in the clinic reviewed the atients medical records and answered the questions regarding their medical condition. Sixty-two caregivers who could not comlete the questionnaire during the visit were given a stamed addressed return enveloe, and 15 of them returned the questionnaire. A total of 126 questionnaires were distributed and 76 caregivers returned it, of which 68 were comleted and analyzed. This study was aroved by the Institutional Review Board of Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, before the articiants were aroached and their written consent was obtained. Data collection was conducted from March to June, Measures Data were collected via a structured questionnaire that consisted of three arts: (1) demograhic information on the caregivers and features of the caregiving situation, (2) information regarding the disease characteristics of the atients, and 3) the subjective and objective caregiver burdens as assessed on Montgomery, Gonyea, and Hooyman s scale. Demograhic information on the caregivers and features of the caregiving situation The gender, age, relationshi with the atient, education level, occuational status, economic status, and family suort were questioned, as were the caregivers ercetion of the rognosis of the atient, the monthly medical cost, and the daily hours of caregiving. Information regarding disease characteristics of the atients The disease status was determined using both a structured interview with caregivers and the medical records of the atient, and included the disease duration, motor disability (using UPDRS art II, Movement Disorder Society Task Force on Rating Scales for Parkinson s Disease, 2003), PD (using the grade on the modified Hoehn and Yahr scale), and the number of medications taken by the atient. UPDRS (Unified Parkinson s Disease Rating Scale) was develoed as a comound scale to cature multile asects of PD. It has four comonents; Part I, Mentation, Behavior and Mood; Part II, Activities of Daily Living; Part III, Motor; Part IV, Comlication. UPDRS Part II is self rating five oint scale instrument comrised of 13 items including
3 244 Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Vol. 37, No. 2 seech, swallowing, writing, self-feeding, dressing, hygiene, going to bed, falling, tremor, walking (Movement Disorder Society Task Force on Rating Scales for Parkinson s Disease, 2003). Among 400 early-stage PD atients examined on two occasions searated by aroximately 2 weeks, the intraclass correlation coefficients of Part II were 0.85 (Siderowf, McDermott, Kieburtz, Blindaure, Plumb, & Shoulson, 2002). Hoehn and Yahr scale has been widely used to evaluate the severity of overall arkinsonian dysfunction relates to bilateral motor involvement and comromised balance and gait. It was originally designed as a five-oint scale and modified Hoehn and Yahr scale includes 0.5 increments (Goetz et al., 2004). The subjective and objective caregiver burdens as assessed on Montgomery, Gonyea, and Hooyman s scale. The burden measure develoed by Montgomery, Gonyea, and Hooyman (1985) and translated and modified for Koreans by Lee (1993) was used to measure the subjective and objective burdens. This instrument comrises a list of 22 items: 13 on subjective burden and 9 on objective burden. This was originally designed as a 5- oint scale, but was reconstructed as a 6-oint scale to revent centralization. The inventory asks resondents to select a number from 1 (strongly agree) to 6 (strongly disagree) to indicate whether the assessed asect of their life or relationshis has changed because of the caregiving activities. The internal consistency of the instrument was high in this study, with a Cronbach s of.81. After standardized, a higher score indicated a greater level of burden. Subjective burden refers to the affect and ercetion comonents of caregiver burden. Examles include feeling that the atient maniulates me as he/she needs and I feel guilty about my relationshi with the atient. The internal consistency was high, with a Cronbach s of.74. Objective burden refers to the extent to which the demands of caregiving infringe on the caregiver s time for self and others. Examles include time for yourself and time for friends and other relatives. The internal consistency of this measure was high, with a Cronbach s of.87. Data analysis Data were analyzed using the SPSS rogram (ver. 12.0). Descritive statistics were used to summarize the demograhic information of caregivers, features of the caregiving situation, and information regarding atients disease status. The level of caregiver burden was described by the means of the subjective and objective caregiver burden. Differences between grous were analyzed using one-way ANOVA (Kruskal-Wallis test if not in condition of normal distribution). Scheffe test was used to find where the differences between means lie. Pearson correlation was comuted to test the relationshi between caregiver burden and demograhic information, caregiving situation, and atients disease status. RESULTS Demograhic characteristics The mean age of the rimary caregivers was years, and the majority was female (65.2%). The majority of rimary caregivers were souses (47.0%) followed by daughters/sons (31.8%), and the daughter-in-law being the rimary caregiver in only 18.2% of cases. These relative ercentages reflect Korean culture. A total of 62.1% of resondents were high school graduates or less, and 57.6% of resondents did not have an occuation besides managing the household. Most of the resondents (57.6%) reorted their economic status as average, and one quarter of them reorted it as oor (Table 1). Features of the caregiving situation The majority of resondents thought that the atient s disease might be controlled (54.5%), with 30.3% considering that it would become worse. The mean daily hours for caregiving was 3.25 hours, and the median monthly medical cost was 300,000 won (Table 2). Disease characteristics of the atients The disease duration was vary from 1 month to 19 years, and the mean was about 6 years, and 13.8% of the atients had suffered from PD for more than 10 years. The median grade on the modified Hoehn and Yahr scale was 2.0, and 64.7% of atients resented mild motor disability on UPDRS art II, with a mean score on this scale of Patients were taking a mean of four or five classes of medications (Table 2). Caregiver burden The reorted total caregiver burden ranged from 48 to 110 ( , mean standard deviation), out of a
4 Kim et al. Subjective and Objective Caregiver Burden in Parkinson s Disease 245 ossible range of 22?132. The subjective burden ranged from 26 to 65 ( ) out of a ossible range of 13?78, and the objective burden ranged from 15 to 54 ( ) out of a ossible range of 9?54. The objective burden was 3.86 and the subjective burden was 3.45 after divided by the number of items. Souses (48.84) reorted significantly higher subjective burden than daughters-in-law (41.91) and daughters/sons (41.52) (=.019). The subjective burden was significantly lower in caregivers who were younger than 41 years (37.80) than in those who were 41?64 years old (47.00) and over 65 years old (47.84) (=.004). The subjective burden was also lower in caregivers who had graduated from college or higher education (41.76) than in those with less education (46.93) (=.035). The subjective burden did not differ with gender, occuation, or economic status, and the objective burden did not differ with demograhic characteristics (Table 1). The objective burden was higher in caregivers who send more than 3 hours caregiving er day (49.00) than in those who sent less time caregiving (=.003). The subjective burden was lower in those with disease durations of u to 1 year (37.91) and of at least 10 years (42.89) (=.035). The subjective burden was higher in caregivers whose monthly medical costs exceeded 200,000 won (47.62) (=.038). The subjective burden did not differ with the number of medications (Table 2). The score on UPDRS art II (=.045) and the grade on the modified Hoehn and Yahr scale (=.018) significantly affected the objective burden, and the subjective burden was significantly lower in those caring for atients with scores of u to 12 on UPDRS art II (=.001) (Table 3). DISCUSSION O Reilly et al. (1996) reorted that ill health was better redicted by a subjective assessment of care demands than by objective measures, and suggested the significance of caregivers ercetions. Therefore, factors affecting both the subjective and objective caregiver burdens should be used in assessments of care demands. This study has demonstrated that caregivers of PD atients exerience high levels of subjective and objective burden, comarable to that in stroke (Hong et al., 2000) and higher than that in general chronic disease (Choi & Table 1. Correlation between Caregiver Burden and Caregiver Demograhic Characteristics Variables Category n (%) Subjective burden Objective burden (M SD) (M SD) Gender Male 23 (34.8) Female 43 (65.2) Age 40 years 15 (24.2) ** a years 28 (45.2) years 19 (30.6) Relationshi Souse 31 (47.0) * Daughter/son 21 (31.8) Daughter-in-law 12 (18.2) Other (arents, relatives) 2 (3.0) Education U to high school 41 (62.1) * At least college graduate 25 (37.9) Emloyment Emloyed 38 (57.6) Unemloyed 28 (42.4) Family suort Total 24 (36.9) resonsibility Partial 24 (36.9) None 17 (26.2) Perceived Very oor 6 (9.1) economic Poor 16 (24.2) status b Average 38 (57.6) Rich 6 (9.1) *.05, **.01 a significantly higher than at age years, and over 65 years. There was no significant difference between ages of years and over 65 years.
5 246 Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Vol. 37, No. 2 Eun, 2000). Patients with PD resent diverse degrees of disability resulting from their hysical and mental imairments. As a consequence, caregivers of PD atients are burdened by stress resulting from the resence of a long-standing and rogressive disease. Carter et al. (1998) found a strong association between disease stage and caregiver stress. The caregiver stress was low in the early stages of PD (modified Hoehn and Yahr grade of 1 2), and this increased in the areas of worry, frustration, tension, direct care, role conflict, and global stress in middle-stage disease (modified Hoehn and Yahr grade of 2.5 3), and further still in the late stages (modified Hoehn and Yahr grade of 4 5). The results of this study are consistent with conclusions from revious studies that the caregiver burden on those taking care of PD atients is strongly associated with the stage of PD and functional status, esecially daily activities (Kim, Chung, Im, & Lee, 2005; Edwards & Scheetz, 2002). In this study, the results indicate that the objective caregiver burden which reflects how caregivers erceive that their life has been disruted by caregiving, was higher than the subjective caregiver burden. Hong et al. (2000) also reorted higher objective caregiver burden than subjective caregiver burden in community dwelling stroke atients. The informal caregivers reorted higher subjective than objective burden when looking after institutionalized atients, but they reorted higher objective burden when taking care of atients at their home Table 2. Difference between Caregiver Burden and Features of the Caregiving Situation Item Category n (%) Subjective burden Objective burden (M SD) (M SD) Percetion of rognosis Will be cured 6 (9.1) May be controlled 36 (54.5) Will become worse 20 (30.3) Close to death 2 (3.0) Don t know 2 (3.0) Daily caregiving <1 hour 22 (46.8) * 1 3 hours 15 (31.9) >3 hours 10 (21.3) Disease duration <1 year 11 (16.9) * years 28 (43.1) years 17 (26.2) >10 years 9 (13.8) Number of medications 4 34 (53.1) (46.9) Monthly medical cost <100,000 won 21 (35.6) * , ,000 won 17 (28.8) >200,000 won 21 (35.6) *.05 Table 3. Difference between Caregiver Burden and the Disease Characteristics Item Category n (%) Subjective burden Objective burden (M SD) (M SD) UPDRS II 0 12 a 44 (64.7) ** * (motor disability) (30.9) (4.4) Modified Hoehn and 1.0 or (22.7) * Yahr grade 2.0 or (69.7) (1.5) (1.5) (4.5) *.05, **.01 a significantly higher than scores on UPDRS art II of 13 25, and over 26. There was no significant difference between scores of 13?25 and over 26.
6 Kim et al. Subjective and Objective Caregiver Burden in Parkinson s Disease 247 (Choi & Eun, 2000). These results imly the significance of ractical social suort, such as roviding resite care, to lower the caregiver burden for those who taking care of community dwelling atients. The convenience samle in this study included twice as many female caregivers as male caregivers. This demonstrates that the majority of atients are male and thus the majority of caregivers are female and also reflecting the Korean cultural context in which most caregivers are women. Results indicate that the degree of caregiver burden did not differ between being emloyed or unemloyed, or between being male or female. However, the age of a caregiver was significantly correlated with the caregiver burden. Those younger than 41 years who has more likely to access social suort reorted the significantly lower subjective caregiver burden. Caregivers who had more hoeful ercetions of the disease aeared to have a lower burden, but this result was not statistically significant. Caregivers exhibit the highest subjective and objective burdens at 1 5 years after the diagnosis, related to symtoms of PD being aggravated even when medications are taken during this eriod, and also it is considered that caregivers have not adjusted to or acceted their caregiving role. A monthly medical cost of more than 200,000 won was significantly associated with a higher subjective burden but not with a higher objective burden. Caring for PD atients requires substantial financial resources for medication, hosital visits, and other medical costs, since most atients and caregivers are not able to work (Jost, 2000). This study did not demonstrate the financial burden in caregivers of PD atients since there was no association between the monthly medical cost and the objective burden, or between economic status and caregiver burden. However, medical costs and subjective caregiver burden were related. In the resent study, the level of disability was the most significant factor associated with caregiver burden. This is in agreement with Kim et al. (2005) and Caa- Ahlgren and Dehlin (2002), who found the functional status of atients to be a determinant of the sychosocial burden on caregivers. Berry and Murhy (1995) also reorted that the stage of PD was related to the caregivers hysical, social, and sychological well-being, and that caregivers of PD atients in more advanced stages of the illness self-reorted that their own health status had declined. The results of this study suggest that the subjective and objective burdens were strongly associated with the disability score, and that the grade on the modified Hoehn and Yahr scale was associated with the objective burden. However, the modified Hoehn and Yahr grade was not associated with the subjective burden. The small number of caregivers who were caring for severe PD atients (with grades on the modified Hoehn and Yahr scale of 3 and over) reduced the ability of this study to demonstrate statistical differences among grous of each stage. Caring for a atient who has a rogressive chronic disease that ultimately results in hysical disability, such as PD, affects not only the caregiver s hysical and sychosocial health but also atient outcomes (Davey, Wiles, & Ashburn, 2004). Study results confirm the findings from revious studies that the caregiver burden increases significantly with the disease severity. The limitations of this study are in the use of a convenience samle, low samle size and only a 60% return rate for the questionnaire, which means that results cannot be generalized and that the study articiants were not reresentative of the entire oulation of caregivers of PD atients. CONCLUSIONS As the elderly oulation in Korea grows, PD will continue to be a challenge to Nursing. The management of PD requires an ongoing commitment not only from the atient but also from the family when ongoing lifestyle adjustments become necessary as the disease rogresses. Considering lack of long-term care facilities in Korea and cultural belief which highly valuing filial iety, most of PD atients will stay at home with informal caregivers. Hereby, it is vial for nurses to suort atients and their informal caregiver to make adjustment esecially at home setting. The result of this study suggested that the objective and subjective burden was strongly associated with the motor disability of the atients and their level of ADL erformance. And the objective burden was higher than the subjective burden in home setting. Therefore, nurses should assess the knowledge base of the individual with PD and caregiver both with secific emhasis on maintaining and/or imroving ADL and assisting caregiving, such as roviding resite care. Because we included few severely disabled cases, as defined by a score of over 30 oints on UPDRS art II
7 248 Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Vol. 37, No. 2 and/or over grade 3 on the modified Hoehn and Yahr scale, our findings might reresent underestimates of the true effects. Therefore, future studies focused on caregivers of severely disabled atients are recommended. Moreover, the actual health status of PD caregivers should also be investigated. References Berry, R. A., & Murhy, J. F. (1995). Well-being of caregivers of souses with Parkinson s disease. Clin Nurs Res, 4(4), Caa-Ahlgren, M., & Dehlin, O. (2002). Factors of imortance to the caregiver burden exerienced by family caregivers of Parkinson s disease atients. Aging Clin Ex Res, 14(5), Carter, J. H., Stewart, B. J., Archbold, P. G., Inoue, I., Jaglin, J., Lannon, M., Rost-Ruffner, E., Tennis, M., McDermott, M. P., Amyot, D., Barter, R., Cornelius, L., Demong, C., Dobson, J., Duff, J., Erickson, P., Gardiner, N., Gauger, L., Gray, P., Kanigan, B., Kiryluk, B., Lewis, P., Mistura, K., Malaira, T., & Zoog, K. (1998). Living with a erson who has Parkinson s disease: the souse s ersective by stage of disease. Mov Disord, 13(1), Choi, K. S., & Eun, Y. (2000). A theory construction on the care exerience for souse of atients with chronic illness. J Korean Acad Nurs, 30(1), Davey, C., Wiles, R., Ashburn, A., & Murhy, C. (2004). Falling in Parkinson s disease: the imact on informal caregivers. Disabil Rehabil, 26(3), Dunkin, J. J., & Anderson-Hanley, C. (1998). Dementia caregiver burden: a review of the literature and guidelines for assessment and intervention. Neurology, 51(1), S53-S60. Edwards, N., & Scheetz, P. (2002). Predictors of burden for caregivers of atients with Parkinson s disease. J Neurosci Nurs, 34(4), Goetz, C., Poewe, W., Rascol, O., Samaio, C., Stebbing, G., Counsell, C., Giladi, N., Holloway, R., Moore, C., Wenning, G., Yahr, M., & Seidl, L. (2004). Movement disorder society task force reort on the Hoehn and Yahr Staging Scale: status and recommendations. Mov Disord. 19(9), Greenberg, D. A., Aminoff, M. J., & Simon, R. P. (2005). Clinical Neurology. 6th Ed. New York : McGraw-Hill Medical. Hong, Y. S., Suh, M. J., Kim, K. S., Kim, I. J., Cho, N. O., Choi, H. J., Jung, S. H., & Kim, E. M. (2000). Relations between erceived burden and social suort of stroke atient s family caregiver. J Korean Acad Nurs, 30(3), Jost, W. H. (2000). Costs in the treatment of arkinsonism. J Neurol, 247, S31-S33. Kim, S. R., Chung, S. J., Im, J. H., & Lee, M. C. (2005). The caregivers burden in Parkinson s disease. J Korean Neurol Assoc, 23(3), 335?340. Lee, Y. S. (1993). A Study on the Family Burden of Chronically Ill Patients at Hosital. Unublished master s thesis. The Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. Montgomery, J., Gonyea, J., & Hooyman, N. (1985). Caregiving and the exerience of objective and subjective burden. Fam Relat, 34, Movement Disorder Society Task Force on Rating Scales for Parkinson s Disease. (2003). The Unified Parkinson s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS): status and recommendations. Mov Disord, 18(7), O Reilly, F., Finnan, F., Allwright, S., Smith, G. D., & Ben-Shlomo, Y. (1996). The effects of caring for a souse with Parkinson s disease on social, sychological and hysical well-being. Br J Gen Pract, 46(410), Schrag, A., Hovris, A., Morley, D., Quinn, N., & Jahanshahi, M. (2006). Caregiver-burden in arkinson s disease is closely associated with sychiatric symtoms, falls, and disability. Parkinsonism Relat Disord, 12(1), Siderowf, A., McDermott, M., Kieburtz, K., Blindaure, K., Plumb, S., & Shoulson, I. (2002). Test-retest reliability of the unified Parkinson s disease rating scale in atients with early Parkinson s disease: results from a multicenter clinical trial. Mov Disord, 17(4),
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