Health Behaviors Among Baby Boomer Informal Caregivers
Health Behaviors Among Baby Boomer Informal Caregivers
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DOI：
10.1093/geront/gns003
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发表时间：
2012-04-01
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影响因子：
5.7
通讯作者：
Mendez-Luck, Carolyn A.
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作者：
Hoffman, Geoffrey J.;Lee, Jihey;Mendez-Luck, Carolyn A.
研究目的：本研究调查“婴儿潮一代”照顾者和非照顾者的健康危险行为。设计和方法：来自2009年加州健康访谈调查的数据提供了5688名非正式照顾者和12941名非照顾者的个人水平、照顾者和健康行为特征。Logistic回归模型分别评估了四种个人健康风险行为-吸烟、久坐行为、经常喝苏打水和快餐-以及全球健康风险衡量标准。结果：控制了心理困扰、个人特征和社会资源，如年龄、性别、收入和教育程度、工作和婚姻状况、社区安全，照顾者比非照顾者更容易出现总体负面健康行为、吸烟、经常喝苏打水和快餐。我们没有观察到配偶照顾者和照顾者在较长时间内或与其他照顾者相比，每周提供更多小时的照顾者在与压力相关的负面行为几率上的显著差异。影响：我们的研究发现，有证据表明，婴儿潮一代的照顾者从事与照看相关的不良健康行为。婴儿潮一代的照顾者可能面临与残疾和慢性病相关的某些行为因素的风险。
Purpose of the Study: This study examines health-risk behaviors among "Baby Boomer" caregivers and non-caregivers. Design and Methods: Data from the 2009 California Health Interview Survey of the state's non-institutionalized population provided individual-level, caregiving, and health behavior characteristics for 5,688 informal caregivers and 12,941 non-caregivers. Logistic regression models were estimated separately for four individual health-risk behaviors-smoking, sedentary behavior, and regular soda and fast-food consumption-as well as a global health-risk measure. Results: Controlling for psychological distress and personal characteristics and social resources such as age, gender, income and education, work and marital status, and neighborhood safety, caregivers had greater odds than non-caregivers of overall negative health behavior and of smoking and regular soda and fast-food consumption. We did not observe significant differences in odds of negative behavior related to stress for spousal caregivers and caregivers in the role for longer periods of time or those providing more hours of weekly care compared with other caregivers. Implications: Our study found evidence that Baby Boomer caregivers engage in poor health behaviors that are associated with exposure to caregiving. Baby Boomer caregivers may be at risk for certain behavioral factors that are associated with disability and chronic illness.