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| Strain in African American and white American caregivers of hospitalized elderly | | Author(s) | Karen F Bowman, C Seth Landefeld, Linda M Quinn |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 20, no 5, September 1998 |
| Pages | pp 547-568 |
| Keywords | White people ; Black people ; Family care ; Stress ; Hospital services ; Patients ; Discharge [hospitals] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The relationship between race and strain in family caregivers of hospitalised older patients were investigated in this US study. Data were drawn from a sample of 176 African American and 194 white American caregivers who were identified as part of a prospective study of changes in functional status of older hospitalised patients. When interaction terms were added to a multivariate model assessing the relationship between race and strain, race lost its significant influence on strain. Instead, its combination with two other variables - being an adult child caregiver and being married - emerged as important correlates. Being an adult child had deleterious consequences for white caregivers, whereas being married had advantageous consequences for African American caregivers. Findings highlight the need to re-evaluate how the race variable is used in future research and the need for hospital staff to be sensitive to racial diversity when working with families to plan for older patients' discharge. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981029401 A |
| Classmark | TKA: TKE: P6:SJ: QNH: LD: LF: LD:QKJ: 7T |
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