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| The importance of family relationships with nursing facility staff for family caregiver burden and depression | | Author(s) | Cory K Chen, Myra Sabir, Sheryl Zimmerman |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 62B, no 5, September 2007 |
| Pages | pp P253-P260 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Family care ; Stress ; Depression ; The Family ; Communication ; Care home staff ; Nursing homes ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Burden as a mediator in the relationship between family caregiver depression and the quality of staff-family relationships was tested. The authors used structural equation modelling with data from the Partners in Caregiving study, for a representative sample of 932 family members from 20 nursing homes in Central New York, to examine the association between staff-family relationships and family caregiver depression. Staff-family relationship quality - specifically, perceived conflict with staff - is significantly associated with family caregiver depression. Further, caregiver burden mediates this relationship. Interventions to improve staff-family relationships may have an effect on family caregiver depression by reducing the stress that family caregivers experience. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080306203 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: QNH: ENR: SJ: U: QRM: LHB: 7T |
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