The Quality of Life of Female Informal Caregivers: From Scandinavia to the Mediterranean Sea
The Quality of Life of Female Informal Caregivers: From Scandinavia to the Mediterranean Sea
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DOI：
10.1007/s10680-014-9336-7
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发表时间：
2015-08-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Migheli, Matteo
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作者：
Di Novi, Cinzia;Jacobs, Rowena;Migheli, Matteo
我们分析的影响，提供护理的健康和生活质量（QoL）的成年女性非正式照顾者使用的代表性样本来自欧洲的健康，老龄化和退休调查（SHARE）。我们匹配每个非正式的照顾者与非照顾者使用倾向评分匹配和测试是否匹配的个人不同的自我评估的健康和生活质量的功能指标，以及这种关系是否在欧洲地区不同。我们发现一个南北梯度的自我评估的健康和生活质量，我们的研究结果表明，在欧洲的近亲提供的照顾者的生活质量和健康的影响的方式，取决于他们的地理位置，正式护理的程度和特定的文化和社会因素的地区。我们发现，非正式的照顾是一个复杂的现象，可能会带来心理上的回报和痛苦的照顾和这种复杂性，沿着的地理梯度突出的重要性，确保政策相匹配的个人照顾者在自己的地理区域和文化背景的需要。
We analyse the impact of the provision of care on the health and quality of life (QoL) of adult female informal caregivers using a representative sample drawn from the survey of health, ageing and retirement in Europe (SHARE). We match each informal caregiver with a non-carer using propensity score matching and test whether matched individuals differ on self-assessed health and a functional indicator of QoL and whether this relationship differs across European regions. We find a North-South gradient both for self-assessed health and QoL, and our results show that the provision of caregiving to close relatives in Europe impacts on the caregivers' QoL and health in a way that depends on their geographical location, the degree of formal care and specific cultural and social factors of the area. We find that informal caregiving is a complex phenomenon which may bring both psychological rewards and distress to providers of care and this complexity, along with the geographical gradient highlight the importance of ensuring that policies match the needs of individual carers in their own geographical areas and cultural contexts.