Reliability and validity of the Mongolian version of the Zarit Caregiver Burden Interview.
Maika Yamaguchi, Daisuke Uga, Rie Nakazawa and 1 others
PMID 32753785WHAT IT FOUND
The Mongolian caregiver burden questionnaire gave consistent scores when 16 caregivers repeated it after 9.5 days on average.
It also matched their overall burden ratings. The sample was small, and hours of care did not clearly track burden.
Key findings
01Total scores were very similar when caregivers answered again after 9.5 days.
02The single overall burden question agreed strongly with the sum of the other 21 questions.
03Daily care hours did not show a clear difference in total burden scores across the three groups.
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What it does not show
Only 16 patient-caregiver pairs were analysed after exclusions, so the results rest on a small group. The sample came from three national hospitals in Ulaanbaatar, and 12 of the 16 patients had cerebral nervous disease, so it may not represent caregivers in other regions or with other conditions. The questionnaire was not compared with other established measures of depression, cognition, or behavioural problems, because the authors said few such measures had been validated in Mongolia. The daily care-hour groups had 6, 6, and 4 participants, so the lack of difference could be due to small numbers and varied scores. The study did not test whether using the questionnaire changes care, burden, or patient outcomes.
Declared interests
The authors declared no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat this as proof that the questionnaire works for all Mongolian caregivers or that more care hours mean more burden. Only 16 patient-caregiver pairs were analysed, and burden scores did not differ clearly across the daily care-hour groups.