Parental attitudes towards oral health and caries-risk in their children

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate whether parents can be matched with attitudes towards oral health by means of a short vignette sheet, developed based on the results of an earlier Q-methodological study. Furthermore, this study aims to explore how the attitudes associate with diet and oral hygiene habits and with clinical...

Putting your money where your mouth is: Parents' valuationa of good oral health of their children

Burden of informal caregiving for stroke patients: Identification of caregivers at risk of adverse health effects

Background: We assessed the objective and subjective burden of caregiving for stroke patients and investigated which characteristics of the patient, the informal caregiver and the objective burden contribute most to subjective burden and to the condition of feeling substantially burdened. Methods: We studied a sample of 151 stroke survivors and...

Burden of caregiving: Evidence of objective burden, subjective burden, and quality of life impacts on informal caregivers of patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

What really matters: An inquiry into the relative importance of dimensions of informal caregiver burden

Objective: Prevailing measures of subjective caregiver burden either have no overall summary score or do not consider the relative importance caregivers attach to different dimensions of burden. Our aim was to assess which dimensions informal caregivers perceive as being important to their overall burden from care giving. Design: Cross-sectional...