Family caregivers' strains - Comparative analysis of cancer caregiving with dementia, diabetes, and frail elderly caregiving
Family caregivers' strains - Comparative analysis of cancer caregiving with dementia, diabetes, and frail elderly caregiving
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DOI：
10.1177/0898264308317533
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发表时间：
2008-08-01
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Schulz, Richard
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作者：
Kim, Youngmee;Schulz, Richard
目的：本研究旨在从家庭照顾者的角度探讨癌症对家庭照顾者的影响，并对四种类型的家庭照顾者的癌症负担和痛苦进行比较分析。研究方法：样本包括癌症，痴呆症，糖尿病或体弱老人的照顾者，来自全国代表性样本的606名照顾者。结果如下：虽然四种不同类型的照顾者在大多数社会人口学特征方面具有可比性，但照顾参与和照顾结果在照顾组之间存在差异。在控制了社会人口统计学和老年痴呆症的参与（即，负担水平和持续时间）因素。讨论：比较分析提供了一个系统的审查癌症的背景下，其他三种类型的移植。鉴于负担和痛苦程度高，应更加重视为癌症护理人员制定社会服务政策和做法。
Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the impact of cancer from family caregivers' perspective, based on a comparative analysis of caregiving burden and distress, among four types of caregivers. Methods: The sample included caregivers of persons with cancer, dementia, diabetes, or frail elderly from a nationally representative sample of 606 caregivers. Results: Although the four different types of caregivers were comparable in most sociodemographic characteristics, caregiving involvement and caregiving outcomes differed among the caregiving groups. Both cancer and dementia caregivers reported greater levels of physical burden and psychological distress than other caregivers, after controlling for sociodemographic and caregiving involvement (i.e., level of burden and caregiving duration) factors. Discussion: The comparative analysis provided a systematic review of cancer caregiving in the context of three other types of caregiving. Given the high levels of burden and distress, greater emphasis should be placed on developing social service policy and practice for cancer caregivers.