TY - JOUR AU - Cohen, Steven A. AU - Cook, Sarah AU - Kelley, Lauren AU - Sando, Trisha AU - Bell, Allison E. PY - 2015 DA - 2015/08/07 TI - Psychosocial factors of caregiver burden in child caregivers: results from the new national study of caregiving JO - Health and Quality of Life Outcomes SP - 120 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - Over 50 million informal caregivers in the United States provide care to an aging adult, saving the economy hundreds of billions of dollars annually from costly hospitalization or institutionalization. Despite the benefits associated with caregiving, caregiver stress can lead to negative physical and mental health consequences, or “caregiver burden”. Given these potential negative consequences of caregiver burden, it is important not only to understand the multidimensional components of burden but to also understand the experience from the perspective of the caregiver themselves. Therefore, the objectives of our study are to use exploratory factor analysis to obtain a set of latent factors among a subset of caregiver burden questions identified in previous studies and assess their reliability. SN - 1477-7525 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12955-015-0317-2 DO - 10.1186/s12955-015-0317-2 ID - Cohen2015 ER -