Gender Identity in Informal Care: Impact on Health in Spanish Caregivers
Gender Identity in Informal Care: Impact on Health in Spanish Caregivers
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DOI：
10.1177/1049732313507144
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发表时间：
2013-11-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Maroto-Navarro, Gracia
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作者：
del Rio-Lozano, Maria;del Mar Garcia-Calvente, Maria;Maroto-Navarro, Gracia
我们研究了性别认同对男性和女性承担照顾者角色的看法的影响，以确定不同的应对策略和对照顾者健康和生活质量的影响。这项研究，在西班牙安达卢西亚进行，是基于半结构化的采访过程中产生的叙述与主要的非正式照顾者（16名男子和16名妇女）的不同配置文件的社会学分析。我们观察到一种文化假设，即妇女应该承担照顾者的角色，并发现妇女承担了大部分的照顾责任，通常不寻求支持。这可能解释了我们在女性照顾者中观察到的慢性健康障碍、压力、焦虑、抑郁、忽视健康和社会孤立的高患病率。由于照顾者的角色是不是社会强加给男性在我们的设置，男性照顾者采取了灵活的态度，并倾向于寻求外部支持之前，他们的健康和生活质量受到严重影响。
We examined the influence of gender identity on men's and women's perceptions of assuming the caregiver role to identify different coping strategies and the effects on caregiver health and quality of life. The study, performed in Andalusia, Spain, was based on a sociological analysis of the narratives produced during semistructured interviews with primary informal caregivers (16 men and 16 women) of different profiles. We observed a cultural assumption that women should assume the caregiver role and found that women shouldered the bulk of caregiving responsibilities and did not usually seek support. This might explain the high prevalence of chronic health disorders, stress, anxiety, depression, neglect of health, and social isolation we observed among women caregivers. Because the caregiver role was not socially imposed on men in our setting, men caregivers adopted a flexible attitude and tended to seek external support before their health and quality of life were seriously affected.