Well-being, appraisal, and coping in Latina and Caucasian female dementia caregivers:: findings from the REACH study
Well-being, appraisal, and coping in Latina and Caucasian female dementia caregivers:: findings from the REACH study
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DOI：
10.1080/13607860410001709683
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发表时间：
2004-07-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Gallagher-Thompson, D
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作者：
Coon, DW;Rubert, M;Gallagher-Thompson, D
虽然有相当大的兴趣在研究种族多样化的家庭照顾者，很少有研究调查的影响，痴呆症对拉丁美洲家庭。目前的研究包括来自REACH（增强阿尔茨海默氏症护理人员健康的资源）项目的两个网站的参与者，以比较幸福感，评价和宗教信仰的种族，特别注意文化适应的水平。拉丁裔（n=191）和白人女性（n=229）痴呆症的家庭照顾者从两个地区的美国（迈阿密，佛罗里达和北方加州）进行了比较，在基线的人口统计学，照顾对象的特点，精神和身体健康，心理社会资源，包括评估风格和宗教信仰。拉丁美洲的照顾者报告较低的评价压力，更大的感知效益的brachiving，和更多的使用宗教应对比高加索照顾者。这些变量的文化适应水平的拉丁照顾者的关系也进行了探讨。这些结果与拉丁裔和高加索家庭照顾者的心理社会干预的影响进行了讨论。
While there has been considerable interest in studying ethnically diverse family caregivers, few studies have investigated the influence of dementia caregiving on Latino families. The current study includes participants from two sites of the REACH (Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer's Caregiver Health) project to compare well-being, appraisal, and religiosity by ethnicity, with specific attention to levels of acculturation. Latina (n=191) and Caucasian female (n=229) dementia family caregivers from two regions of the United States (Miami, Florida and Northern California) were compared at baseline on demographics, care recipient characteristics, mental and physical health, and psychosocial resources, including appraisal style and religiosity. Latina caregivers reported lower appraisals of stress, greater perceived benefits of caregiving, and greater use of religious coping than Caucasian caregivers. The relationship of these variables to level of acculturation for the Latina caregivers was also explored. Implications of these results for psychosocial interventions with Latino and Caucasian family caregivers are discussed.