Informal caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic perceive additional burden: findings from an ad-hoc survey in Germany

• Main Authors: Andrea Budnick (Author), Christian Hering (Author), Simon Eggert (Author), Christian Teubner (Author), Ralf Suhr (Author), Adelheid Kuhlmey (Author), Paul Gellert (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background While the relation between care involvement of informal caregivers and caregiver burden is well-known, the additional psychosocial burden related to care involvement during the COVID-19 pandemic has not yet been investigated. Methods A total of 1000 informal caregivers, recruited...