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Extended validation and classification of the BSFC-s

Pendergrass A, Malnis C, Graf U, Engel S, Graessel E. "Screening for caregivers at risk: Extended validation of the short version of the Burden Scale for Family Caregivers (BSFC-s) with a valid classification system for caregivers caring for an older person at home." BMC Health Services Research 18, 2018.

Key findings used in wiki

  • The study supplied an empirically derived interpretation system for the 0-30 BSFC-s total.
  • The three groups were derived principally against physical and psychosomatic complaints measured by GBB-24. Depression was examined as a related outcome, but the study's classification table should not be conflated with later wording on the official instrument site.
  • The classification concerns burden-associated health risk; it is not a suicide-risk classification and does not establish a 988 trigger.
  • The extended classification sample concerned caregivers of an older person at home in Bavaria, so broader population and English-language claims should preserve that scope.