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| Associations among caregiving difficulties, burden, and rewards in caregivers to older post-rehabilitation patients | | Author(s) | Sara E Riedel, Lisa Fredman, Pat Langenberg |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 53B, no 3, May 1998 |
| Pages | pp P165-P174 |
| Keywords | Family care ; Attitude ; Stress ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Most studies of informal caregivers to older people have focused on the negative effects of caregiving, and few have examined both the caregiving difficulties and rewards. In this US study, the associations between self-reported rewards and difficulties of caregiving and burden were examined in a sample of 200 informal caregivers to older post-rehabilitation patients. Findings showed that 16% of caregivers reported that caregiving was physically difficult only, 15% reported emotional difficulties only, 11% had social difficulties only, 17% reported multiple difficulties, and 40% had no difficulties. Each type of difficulty was significantly associated with burden in univariate and multiple linear regression analyses, controlling for confounding characteristics. Caregivers reporting multiple types of difficulty experienced higher levels of burden than caregivers who reported only one type of difficulty. Caregivers who received more rewards from caregiving reported fewer difficulties. Caregiving rewards had no independent effect on burden but modified the associations between social and emotional difficulties and burden. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980813414 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: DP: QNH: 7T |
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