Title

Caregiver burden of geriatric population residing in urban area, Karnataka, India

Authors

M. Sushma Yadav¹, Avinash Vishwakarma¹, Kapil Prajapat¹*, Ankit Das², Alekhya Yalavarthi³, Manjunath S. Nekar⁴, Piyush Bharti⁵, Sujeet Kumar² & Prerak Tripathi¹

Affiliation

¹Department of Community and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India; ²Department of General Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India; ³All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India; ⁴Department of Community Medicine, Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences, Hubli, Karnataka, India; ⁵Department of Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India; *Corresponding Author

Email

M. Sushma Yadav- E-mail: msushmayadav@gmail.com

Avinash Vishwakarma - E-mail: neetavi607@gmail.com

Kapil Prajapat - E-mail: kapil008pra@gmail.com

Ankit Das - E-mail: ankit.rgsr@gmail.com

Alekhya Yalavarthi - E-mail: alekhyayalavarthi18@gmail.com

Manjunath S Nekar - E-mail: drmanjusn@gmail.com

Piyush Bharti - E-mail: piyushbharti@aiims.edu

Sujeet Kumar - E-mail: mail4usujeet@gmail.com

Prerak Tripathi - E-mail: drprerak.tripathi2001@gmail.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received July 1, 2026; Revised July 31, 2026; Accepted July 31, 2026, Published July 31, 2026

Abstract

Caregiver burden among family members caring for the geriatric population remains an important public health concern, particularly in rapidly urbanizing communities where caregiving demands continue to increase. A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 100 caregivers of elderly individuals residing in urban Karnataka using a structured questionnaire and the Novak and Caregiver Burden Inventory to assess caregiver factors. Most caregivers were females (90%) and young adults (48%), while 67% had low overall caregiver burden (score <20). Caregiver burden was significantly associated with behavioural problems, memory loss, longer caregiving duration and inadequate caregiving knowledge (p<0.05), with behavioural disturbances and insufficient caregiving knowledge contributing most to developmental, physical, social and emotional burden. Thus, data shows the need for caregiver education, psychosocial support and community based interventions to reduce caregiver burden and improve the quality of geriatric care.

Keywords

Caregiver burden; geriatric population; elderly care; caregiver stress; quality of life; urban population; family caregivers; behavioural problems; activities of daily living; Karnataka

Citation

Yadav et al. Bioinformation 22(7): 4427-4431 (2026)

Edited by

A Prashanth

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.