COPING WITH DEMENTIA--MULTIVARIATE CAUSAL MODELS

建议进行一项前瞻性的纵向研究，以检查决定因素 痴呆症患者照顾者的长期应对。最少200 最初轻至中度轻症受害者及其照顾者将 在两年半的时间里，有四波数据 收集。头两波相隔六个月，第三波相隔六个月 第四波将发生在第二次和第三次之后的一年， 分别进行了分析。基于现有文献的广泛概念模型 应对慢性压力和关于照顾者的大量文献 应对将指导数据的收集和分析。 要收集的主要数据类别包括以下指标 客观压力、感知压力和长期应对指标。在……里面 此外，还将考察五种类型的条件变量： 社会人口学特征、社会支持、应对策略 照顾者，两个人格因素，以及关系的性质 在疾病发生前在照顾者和受害者之间。描述性、协方差 并将使用结构建模技术(LISREL)来回答 关于压力和应对方式随时间变化的基本问题 痴呆症患者照顾者之间的关系，并测试特定的模型 确定在我们的概念中确定的变量之间的因果联系 框架。

A prospective longitudinal study is proposed to examine the determinants of long-term coping among caregivers of dementia patients. A minimum of 200 initially mild to moderate demetia victims and their caregivers will be followed for a period of two-and-one-half years, with four waves of data collection. The initial two waves will be six months apart and the third and fourth waves will occur one year after the second and third, respectively. A broad conceptual model based on the existing literature on coping with chronic stress and on the extensive literature on caregiver coping will guide the data collection and analysis. The major categories of data to be collected include indicators of objective stress, perceived stress, and indicators of long-term coping. In addition, five types of conditioning variables will be examined: sociodemographic characteristics, social support, coping strategies used by the caregiver, two personality factors, and the nature of the relationship between caregiver and victim prior to the illness. Descriptive, covariance and structural modeling techniques (LISREL) will be used to answer fundamental questions regarding changes in stress and coping over time among caregivers of dementia patients and to test specific models identifying causal links between the variables identified in our conceptual framework.