Telephone intervention to reduce burden and improve quality of life among dementia caregivers: a bibliometric analysis from 2017 to 2022
Background and Aims: Caring for a person suffering with dementia is a major public health challenge as it contributes to psychiatric and physical illness among the caregivers. The number of people living with dementia is estimated to rise to 115.4 million by 2050. This bibliometric analysis was a...
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| Format: | Proceeding Paper |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/107871/1/107871_Telephone%20intervention.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/107871/ |
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| Summary: | Background and Aims: Caring for a person suffering with dementia is a major public health
challenge as it contributes to psychiatric and physical illness among the caregivers. The number
of people living with dementia is estimated to rise to 115.4 million by 2050. This bibliometric
analysis was aim to explore the trend of telephone intervention among family carers of
community dwelling people living with dementia during the past five years.
Methods: Using the keywords “dementia”, “carers”, and “telephone”, we retrieved
publications discussing on telephone-intervention among dementia caregivers appearing in the
PubMed/MEDLINE from 2017 to 2022.
Results: The total number of 199 publications that discussed on telephone-intervention in
analysing the burdens of dementia caregivers increased three-fold in the last five years, with
Australia, China and the USA being the top three countries with the highest publications,
suggesting that these countries have made many scientific contributions to this field of
research. Most telephone-delivered intervention were conducted in high income countries, but
only a few in middle and low income countries, such as Malaysia. Retrieved articles were
published mostly in journals with impact factors ranging between 3.0 to 4.0, mainly the BMC
Geriatrics, Aging & Mental Health and BMJ Open, that specialize in mental health and
healthcare of older people. Over the five-year period, quality of life was consistently one of the
most frequent terms discussed for this research field. Other top rankings were anxiety,
neuropsychiatric symptoms, social support, dementia care, and covid-19.
Conclusion:
Dementia research has grown markedly in the past years, not only on the patient but the
caregivers as well. The impact factor of journals and strong collaborations between highlydeveloped countries support that the quality of published research has improved. While quality
of life was a consistently dominant research focus, other topics gained much attention during
this time period too. These findings provide a framework for analysing the current status
caregivers of person with dementia (PWD) quality of life research and establishing a complete
approach for furthering the subject. |
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