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Full name of scale |
(CBS) Caregiver Burden Scale (Novak & Guest, 1989) |
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Languages |
English |
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Rater |
Clinician or Family-rated scale |
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Training |
No information found |
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Utility |
Measures the impact of burden on caregivers. Evaluates the effects on caregivers of nursing home care, respite care, adult day care, or homemaker programs.
Implications on aftercare for caregivers; eg individual counseling, family therapy, or continued informal support to help them overcome the social barriers that caregiving may have created (a loss of friends, an interrupted career, or a decrease in community contacts). They may also need advice on how to allow staff to take over the work of caregiving |
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Time to complete |
10 minutes |
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Cost/license |
No information found |
Novak, M., & Guest, C. (1989). Application of a multidimensional caregiver burden inventory. The Gerontologist, 29(6), 798–803. Follow this link for the article.
