Today, Credit Suisse First Boston said "inventory burdens" at Japanese wireless carriers may be a "minor negative" for Solectron and Flextronics International .A CSFB-Japan survey reported that Sony-Ericsson and Matsushita have the highest inventory burdens currently through Japanese wireless carriers; NEC has reduced production to work down inventories," the research firm said.
Changes in behavior were evaluated using the Neuropsychiatric Inventory, caregiver burden using the Zarit Caregiver Burden Interview, and global function using the Clinician's Interview-Based Impression of Change-plus Caregiver Input (CIBIC-plus).
The purpose of this study was to obtain adjusted measures for a Mexican population calculating item discrimination properties, internal consistency and factor structure of four instruments: Zarit Burden Inventory, Maslach Burnout Inventory, the General Health Questionnaire, and Stress Symptoms Inventory.
BPSD: Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia; CBI: Caregiver burden inventory; NPI-Q: Neuropsychiatric inventory questionnaire; SSRS: Social support rating scale.
The Headache Disability Inventory evaluated the burden of headache.
Main Outcome Measures: The Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS), Sickness Impact Profile (SIP), Burden Inventory, and Perceived Quality of Life (PQOL).
The BPSD were assessed using the neuropsychiatric inventory (NPI); caregiver burden was evaluated using the NPI caregiver distress scale (NPI-D).
Results: Discharge to rehabilitation was associated with poorer functioning on the GOS (P=.03) and SIP (P=.57), an increase on the Burden Inventory (P=.14), and improved PQOL (P=.20).
The aims of the study were to determine the usefulness for FEP families of the Caregiver Burden Inventory (CBI), a scale originally designed for use with family members of Alzheimer's patients.
l CBI = Caregiver Burden Inventory.
