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| The relationship between normative beliefs about help seeking and the experience of caregiving in Alzheimer's disease | | Author(s) | Kathleen A Smyth, Mary K Milidonis |
| Journal title | Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol 18, no 2, June 1999 |
| Pages | pp 222-238 |
| Keywords | Family care ; Dementia ; Attitude ; Stress ; Health services ; Usage [services]. |
| Annotation | Whereas a growing commitment to incorporating caregiver attitudes, beliefs and perceptions into research and practice related to service use has emerged, less attention has been paid to the link between these subjective caregiver characteristics and the caregiving experience more generally. In a US sample of 120 family caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease (AD), the authors found that independent of the care recipient, normative beliefs about receiving help were significantly related to caregiver mental and physical burden, role captivity, and overload. Practitioners may be able to improve the caregiving experience by taking caregivers' normative beliefs into account throughout the course of caregiving, and by helping individuals and their families to modify maladaptive beliefs. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990728237 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: EA: DP: QNH: L: QLD |
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