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Ethnic differences in stressors, resources and psychological outcomes of family caregiving
— a meta-analysis | | Author(s) | Martin Pinquart, Silvia Sörensen |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 45, no 1, February 2005 |
| Pages | pp 90-106 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Ethnic groups ; Family care ; Stress ; Social surveys ; Literature reviews ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Literature searches of PsycInfo, Medline, AGELINE, Current Contents and PYNDEX found 116 empirical studies for this meta-analysis of caregivers' ethnic differences. Ethnic minority caregivers had a lower socioeconomic status, were younger, were less likely to be a spouse, and more likely to receive informal support. They provided more care than White caregivers. Asian-American caregivers, but not African-American and Hispanic caregivers, used less formal support tha non-Hispanic White caregivers. Whereas African-American caregivers had lower levels of caregiver burden and depression than White caregivers, the authors found that Hispanic and Asian American caregivers were more depressed than their White non-Hispanic peers. However, all groups of ethnic minority caregivers reported worse physical health than their White non-Hispanic peers. However, all groups of ethnic minority caregivers reported worse physical health than Whites. Observed ethnic differences in burden and depression were influenced by study characteristics, such as type of illness of the care recipient and the representativeness of the sample. The results suggest that more specific theories are needed to explain differential effects of ethnic minority groups of caregivers. Intervention needs vary, in part, between caregiver ethnic groups. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050419204 A |
| Classmark | TK: P6:SJ: QNH: 3F: 64A: 7T |
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