Furthermore, sufficient nurse staffing to avoid excessive workload is an essential requirement for occupational health of caregivers [ 6].
Caregiving demands measure the daily demands on the caregiver, as well as conflict between the caregiving role and occupational roles of the primary caregiver.
Furthermore, socio-economic status (SES) is determined by income level, educational level of both the mother and the father (or other caregivers), and occupational level of each primary caregiver, using the International Standard Classification for Occupations [ 49].
Caregiver burden is defined as a negative reaction to the impact of providing care on caregivers' social, occupational, and personal roles [ 18] and can lead to burnout and other negative consequences, potentially impacting their ability to provide care.
Therefore, the occupational therapist explores the caregiver's preferences of activities using the one hour Ethnographic Interview [ 35].
The Tailored Activity Program (TAP) showed that assessment informing tailored activity prescription by an occupational therapist coupled with caregiver training over eight sessions at home reduced problem behaviours and increased pleasure and engagement of persons with dementia [ 24].
The questionnaire consists of three parts which include: socio-demographic characteristics (age, gender, ethnicity, religion, educational status and occupational status of the caregiver, age of the child, gender of the child, family size); health care provider/program related factors to adherence; reasons of missing doses.
In Study 1, nine interviews and one focus group were conducted with occupational therapists and other professional caregivers.
Socioeconomic status will be indexed by the Winkler Index [ 175], which takes into account educational as well as occupational status and income of caregivers.
The participants are a heterogeneous group of Flemish licensed or qualified caregivers (nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language therapists, dieticians, podiatrists, social workers, physicians, psychologists, dentists, pharmacists).
