IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jijerp/v16y2019i2p217-d197466.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Caregiver Burden Inventory

Author

Listed:
  • Fernando L. Vázquez

    (Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

  • Patricia Otero

    (Department of Psychology, University of A Coruña, 15701 A Coruña, Spain)

  • Miguel A. Simón

    (Department of Psychology, University of A Coruña, 15701 A Coruña, Spain)

  • Ana M. Bueno

    (Department of Psychology, University of A Coruña, 15701 A Coruña, Spain)

  • Vanessa Blanco

    (Department of Evolutionary and Educational Psychology, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

Abstract

Although the Caregiver Burden Inventory (CBI) is the most widely used multidimensional burden instrument for assessing perceived burden of caregivers, there is no data on its psychometric properties in Spanish, nor on caregivers of dependent persons with various diseases. The objective of this study was to translate the CBI into Spanish and validate it in caregivers of dependent persons with various diseases. Trained evaluators administered the CBI and assessed emotional distress and probable mental disorder in 201 caregivers (87.1% women, mean age 56.2 years). The internal consistency of the CBI was 0.89 (0.74–0.83 among the subscales). There was a significant correlation of emotional distress with both the total burden and each subscale ( p < 0.001 in all cases). A total score of 39 and scores of 16, 9, 8, 4, and 2 in burden per time dedicated to care, personal life burden, physical burden, social burden, and emotional burden were suitable cut-off points to discriminate caregivers with probable mental disorder (sensitivity = 63.0%–75.6%, specificity = 63.4%–74.4%). To achieve a greater goodness of fit, the model was re-specified, resulting in a shortened (15-item) instrument. The internal consistency reliability coefficients of the 15-item CBI were satisfactory (Cronbach α = 0.83; 0.77–0.86 among the subscales). Within the 15-item CBI, emotional distress was significantly correlated with the total burden, personal life burden, physical burden, social burden ( p < 0.001 in all those cases), and emotional burden ( p = 0.001). A total score of 25 and scores of 12, 5, 5, 3, and 1, respectively, in the subscales were identified as cut-off points to discriminate caregivers with probable mental disorder (sensitivity = 46.2%–70.6%, specificity = 43.9%–79.3%). Therefore, the 15-item CBI validly measured caregiver burden with better fit and more parsimoniously than the original CBI.

Suggested Citation

  • Fernando L. Vázquez & Patricia Otero & Miguel A. Simón & Ana M. Bueno & Vanessa Blanco, 2019. "Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Caregiver Burden Inventory," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(2), pages 1-19, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:16:y:2019:i:2:p:217-:d:197466
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/2/217/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/2/217/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Carlos Chiatti & Danae Rodríguez Gatta & Agneta Malmgren Fänge & Valerio Mattia Scandali & Filippo Masera & Connie Lethin & On behalf of the UP-TECH and TECH@HOME research groups, 2018. "Utilization of Formal and Informal Care by Community-Living People with Dementia: A Comparative Study between Sweden and Italy," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 15(12), pages 1-15, November.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Patricia Otero & Isabel Hita & Ángela J. Torres & Fernando L. Vázquez, 2020. "Brief Psychological Intervention Through Mobile App and Conference Calls for the Prevention of Depression in Non-Professional Caregivers: A Pilot Study," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(12), pages 1-15, June.
    2. Alberto Sardella & Vittorio Lenzo & Angela Alibrandi & Antonino Catalano & Francesco Corica & Maria C. Quattropani & Giorgio Basile, 2021. "A Clinical Bridge between Family Caregivers and Older Adults: The Contribution of Patients’ Frailty and Optimism on Caregiver Burden," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(7), pages 1-11, March.
    3. Federico Montero-Cuadrado & Miguel Ángel Galán-Martín & Javier Sánchez-Sánchez & Enrique Lluch & Agustín Mayo-Iscar & Ántonio Cuesta-Vargas, 2020. "Effectiveness of a Physical Therapeutic Exercise Programme for Caregivers of Dependent Patients: A Pragmatic Randomised Controlled Trial from Spanish Primary Care," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(20), pages 1-23, October.
    4. Ruttana Phetsitong & Patama Vapattanawong, 2022. "Reducing the Physical Burden of Older Persons’ Household Caregivers: The Effect of Household Handrail Provision," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(4), pages 1-17, February.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.

      Corrections

      All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:16:y:2019:i:2:p:217-:d:197466. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

      If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

      If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

      If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

      For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

      Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

      IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.