Factors influencing caregivers’ burden among family caregivers and institutionalization of in-home elderly people cared for by family caregivers

Table 1 Characteristics of subjects (n = 133)

Subjects of the study	Data^a
Elderly people requiring care
Male	46 (34.6)
Age	81.9 ± 8.5
Requiring care level: severe (3+)	62 (46.6)
Behavioral disturbances	5.2 ± 5.1
Underlying diseases
Dementia	56 (42.1)
Neoplasms	2 (1.5)
Diabetes mellitus	18 (13.5)
Ischemic heart diseases	34 (25.6)
Cerebrovascular diseases	40 (30.1)
Others	115 (86.5)
Caregivers
Male	43 (32.3)
Age	63.5 ± 11.7
CES-D
Score	15.4 ± 7.53
Depressed	57 (42.9)
J-ZBI	37.0 ± 16.6

CES-D Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, J-ZBI Japanese version of the Zarit Burden Interview
^aData are presented as the number of subjects (n), with the percentage given in parenthesis, or as the mean ± standard deviation (SD), as appropriate

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