Validation of Zarit Care Giver Burden Scale among Primary Care Givers of persons with Dementia in Bengali: Study from a Tertiary Care Hospital of Eastern India

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Author	Sinha, Abhik Sanyal, Debasish Roy, Sanchari Bhattacharya, Salil
Copyright Year	2020
Abstract	Dementia is an important disorder of public health importance. Memory Loss in dementia necessitates caregiver care. Thus caregiver burden assessment is thus also very important part in dementia. Zarit Care Giver Burden Scale is widely used scale for assessment of caregiver burden assessment in persons with dementia. Thus Bengali validation of this scale in Bengali is also very important for the caregivers of persons with dementia who can understand only Bengali but not English. In this context the present study was planned with the following objectives : of to validate the English version of Zarit caregiver burden in Bengali and to establish the reliability of the Bengali version of the Zarit caregiver burden scale among primary care givers of persons with Dementia The study was carried out at the Dementia Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, RG Kar Medical College. The scale to be validated into Bengali, the Zarit Care Giver Burden Scale is a 22 item scale. According to the rule of validation the minimum sample size required for the validation study come to be 22 × 10 = 220 .These 220 study participants were selected from the Dementia Clinic, RG Kar Medical College. A sampling frame of all the primary caregivers of the patients attending the Dementia Clinic of RG Kar Medical College was prepared of which 220 primary caregivers of the patients who fulfilled the inclusion and exclusion criteria of the study were selected by simple random sampling. Consent was obtained from all study participants. Bengali translation of Zarit Care Giver Burden Scale used the sequence of steps suggested by World Health Organization. The steps were: Establishment of a bilingual group of experts, Examination of the conceptual structure of the instrument under study by the experts, Translation, Examination of the translation by the experts, Examination of the translation by a monolingual group, Blind back translation, Examination of the blind back-translation by the experts. Data was compiled and analysed by SPSS 20.0. In the present study the validated Zarit Care Giver Burden Scale was found to be reliable and valid .The mean Kappa value was found to be 0.961. Reliability of the validated Zarit Care Giver Burden Scale measured by Cronbach Alpha was found to be 0.646. Component Matrix revealed that 7 factors could explain 94 % of the variance . -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date of Submission: 14-01-2020 Date of Acceptance: 30-01-2020 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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