Instrumental help and caregivers' distress: effects of change in informal and formal help.
Instrumental help and caregivers' distress: effects of change in informal and formal help.
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10.1177/153331750502000308
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2005-05-01
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Greene, Rick
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Jarrott, Shannon E;Zarit, Steven H;Greene, Rick
痴呆症患者的家庭照顾者依靠一系列资源来提供护理和科普不断增加的压力。非正式（无报酬）和正式（有报酬）的工具性支持有助于不同的照顾者结果。以前的研究照顾者支持的帮助的主观措施或比较照顾者接受正式服务，那些谁不。相反，我们关注的是正式和非正式工具性援助的变化对照顾者痛苦的影响。我们预计，援助的更大收益将与护理人员痛苦的更大减少有关。增加非正式但非正式的援助水平与改善每一个措施的痛苦。可能需要采取更多措施，以充分了解非正式和正式援助的影响。
Family caregivers of persons with dementia rely on a range of resources to provide care and cope with caregiving stressors. Informal (unpaid) and formal (paid) instrumental support contribute to diverse caregiver outcomes. Previous research of caregiver support has focused on subjective measures of help or has compared caregivers receiving formal services to those who do not. We focused instead on the effects of change in the amount of formal and informal instrumental assistance on caregivers' distress. We expected that greater gains in assistance would be associated with greater reduction of caregivers' distress. Increases informal but not informal levels of assistance were associated with improvement in each measure of distress. Additional measures may be needed to fully understand the effects of informal and formal assistance.