Welcome to our website! We are delighted that you are interested in our research. Our names are Prof. Dr. med. Elmar Gräßel, head of the Center for Medical Care Research, and Dr. rer. nat. Anna Pendergrass, head of the Family Care Research working group at the Center for Medical Care Research at the University Hospital Erlangen.
In over three decades of intensive research for and with informal caregivers (CGs), we have developed a variety of instruments and scales that have been designed to record important aspects of the lives of CGs.
Our goals:
- We want to make these important and meaningful instruments available to a broad public—for noncommercial use without license fees.
- Together, we would like to contribute to a better understanding of the situation of CGs in Germany and worldwide.
You can find the various questionnaires here:
You can find information about the subjective burden in general here.
You can find information about the Burden Scale for Family Caregivers (BSFC) here (28 items).
You can find information about the Burden Scale for Family Caregivers short version (BSFC-s) here (10 items).
You can find information about any research content obtained with the BSFC and BSFC-s here.
You can find information for practitioners and doctors here.
You can register to download the scales here.
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