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Correlates of physical health of informal caregivers
— a meta-analysis | | Author(s) | Martin Pinquart, Silvia Sörensen |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 62B, no 2, March 2007 |
| Pages | pp P126-P137 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Health [elderly] ; Correlation ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | Effects of caregiving on physical health have received less theoretical and empirical attention than effects on psychological health. This meta-analysis integrates results from 176 studies on correlates of caregiver physical health. caregiver depressive symptoms had stronger association with physical health than did objective stressors. Higher levels of care recipient behaviour problems were more consistently related to poor caregiver health than were care receiver impairment or intensity of caregiving. Higher age, lower socioeconomic status and lower levels of informal support were related to poorer health. Predictors of physical health are not identical to predictors of psychological health. Associations of caregiving stressors with health were stronger among older samples, dementia caregivers, and men. In sum, negative effects of caregiving on physical health are most likely to be found in psychologically distressed caregivers facing dementia-related stressors. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070504247 A |
| Classmark | P6: CC: 49: 64A |
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