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| Care tasks in the stress process for family caregivers in urban China | | Author(s) | Jinyu Liu, Nan Lu, Vivian W Q Lou |
| Journal title | Clinical Gerontologist, vol 40, no 5, October-December 2017 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, October-December 2017 |
| Pages | pp 426-432 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Family care ; Home care services ; Medical care ; Financial services [older people] ; Stress ; Depression ; Urban areas ; Quantitative studies ; China. |
| Annotation | In this study, the role of care tasks in the caregiving stress process was explored by testing the relationships between distinct care tasks, primary stressors, caregiver burden and depressive symptoms among caregivers. Data were collected from a sample of 754 caregivers who provided care for frail, ageing family members in Shanghai, China. Path analysis was conducted to identify the relationships between the three types of care tasks (monetary support, physical care and emotional care), the caregivers' background, primary stressors, caregiver burden and depressive symptoms. The results show distinct paths through the three types of care tasks in the stress process. Caregivers with higher incomes were more likely to provide monetary support to their care recipients. Being a female caregiver and having greater primary stressors were associated with more involvement in physical care, which predicted higher levels of caregiver burden and further exacerbated depression. The cognitive impairment of care recipients was associated with greater emotional care: caregivers who provided more emotional care reported higher levels of caregiver burden but lower levels of depression. This study underscores the importance of considering different types of care tasks to properly understand caregiving stress across cultures and societies. The study highlights the need for interventions to alleviate caregiving stress by helping family caregivers understand the importance of emotional care, training them to appropriately meet their care recipients' psychological and social needs, and providing financial support for caregivers with lower income to purchase respite care services. (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-171124215 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: NH: LK: J: QNH: ENR: RK: 3DQ: 7DC |
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