The Moderating Role of Pain Self-efficacy in the Relationships Among Caregiver Burden and Care Recipient Pain and Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in a Sample of Persons With Dementia.
Karlee S Patrick, John T Martin, Kimberly R Chapman, Jason R Anderson, Mary B Spitznagel
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Abstract
Past research suggests relationships among dementia caregiver burden and care recipient pain and neuropsychiatric symptoms, but no prior work has examined the influence of pain self-efficacy on these associations. A sample of 502 dementia caregivers completed an online protocol assessing caregiver burden and care recipient neuropsychiatric symptoms, presence of pain, and pain self-efficacy in this cross-sectional, observational study. The indirect effect of neuropsychiatric symptoms on the relationship between pain and caregiver burden was significant. Pain self-efficacy significantly moderated the effect of pain on neuropsychiatric symptoms (P=0.04) and the direct association between pain and caregiver burden (P=0.004), but did not moderate the indirect effect. Future research should explore how pain influences neuropsychiatric symptoms, and whether improvement in pain self-efficacy in dementia care recipients attenuates the influence of pain on neuropsychiatric symptoms and caregiver burden in other samples.