Influences of Social Disengagement and Depressive Symptoms on Sleep Disturbance in Dementia Caregiving Dyads: A Nationally Representative Study
This study represents one of the first attempts to investigate the influencing mechanism of sleep disturbances among older adults with dementia and their informal caregivers through a dyadic perspective. The sleep disturbance of caregivers may be directly influenced by the social disengagement and depressive symptoms exhibited by both members of the dyad, whereas the sleep disturbance experienced by older adults with dementia can only be indirectly influenced by the dyad's social disengagement via their own depressive symptoms. Dyadic social activities targeting depressive symptoms could be designed to address sleep disturbances in dementia caregiving dyads.
Authors
- Isaac Sze Him Leung (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5453-0571)
- Wendy Moyle (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3004-9019)
- Shanshan Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3881-0087)
- Weihong Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7164-3033)
- Xinyi Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1361-2829)
- Minhui Liu
- Peng Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5716-9937)
Institutions
- Hebei Medical University (CN)
- Griffith University (AU)
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK)
- Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Zhengzhou University (CN)
- Ningxia Medical University (CN)
- Henan Medical University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
- Published
- 2024-08-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2024.105197
- Primary Topic
- Sleep and related disorders
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China