Abstract
BackgroundFamily caregivers of dementia patient are at higher risk for perceived burden of caregiving and stress from COVID‐19 than general population. The current study examines the current status COVID‐19‐specific stress, anxiety, burden of caregiving and health related‐ quality of life that may be significantly deteriorated for family caregivers in understanding cargiver burden and their stress experienced due to the COVID‐19 pandemic.MethodAbout two hundred family caregivers aged 20‐79 years in the South Korea will be recruited to collect the data on their stress, anxiety related to ongoing COVID‐19, burden of caregiving, and health‐related Quality of life in an online or telephone survey.ResultThe present study will show that the current status of perceived stress, anxiety, burden of cargiving of person with dementia associated with COVID‐19 pandemic. The increased stress, anixety, and burden of cargiving could negatively affect their health‐related quality of life. The specific study findings will be demonstrated in poster presentation of the conference.ConclusionThe present study will be demonstrated that the association between COVID‐19‐specific stress, burden of caregiving, and health related quality of life for family caregivers of dementia patient. This study findings will encourage future development of public interventions to address burden of caregiving in family caregivers with COVID‐19 pandemic.
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