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Associations of stressors and uplifts of caregiving with caregiver burden and depressive mood
— a meta-analysis | | Author(s) | Martin Pinquart, Silvia Sörensen |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 58B, no 2, March 2003 |
| Pages | pp P112-128 |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Stress ; Depression ; Dementia ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | In this present meta-analysis, the authors integrated findings from 228 studies on the association of six caregiving-related stressors and caregiving uplifts with burden on depressed mood. Care recipients' behaviour problems showed strongest associations with caregiver outcomes than did other stressors. The size of the relationships varied by sample characteristics. Amount of care provided and care receivers' physical impairments were less strongly related to burden and depression for dementia caregivers than for caregivers of non-demented older people. For spouse caregivers, physical impairments and care recipients' behaviour problems had a stronger relationship to burden than for adult children. Furthermore, the authors found evidence that the association of caregiver burden with the number of caregiving tasks, perceived uplifts of caring, and the level of physical impairment of the care receiver were stronger in probability samples than in convenience samples. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030416008 A |
| Classmark | P6: QNH: ENR: EA: 49: 7T |
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