The psychosocial impact of caregiving on young people who have a parent with an illness or disability: Comparisons between young caregivers and noncaregivers
The psychosocial impact of caregiving on young people who have a parent with an illness or disability: Comparisons between young caregivers and noncaregivers
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DOI：
10.1037/0090-5550.51.2.113
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发表时间：
2006-05-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Okochi, Miwa
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作者：
Pakenham, Kenneth I.;Bursnall, Samantha;Okochi, Miwa
目标：通过实证验证突出的定性主题来调查青少年看护的社会心理影响。这是通过开发名为“父母青少年看护者调查表”(YCOPI) 的清单来实现的，该调查旨在评估这些主题并通过比较年轻看护者和非看护者。方法：245 名 10 至 25 岁的参与者完成了问卷调查：其中 100 名年轻看护者和 145 名非看护者。除了 YCOPI 之外，还测量了以下变量：人口统计、护理环境、社会支持、评估、应对策略和调整（健康、生活满意度、痛苦、积极情绪）。结果：YCOPI 中出现了八个可靠的因素，描述了护理的不同影响并反映了先前研究中报告的关键主题。这些因素与大多数护理环境变量以及理论上相关的压力和应对变量有关。与非看护者相比，年轻看护者报告称，年轻看护者的影响力更高，对解决问题的应对方式的依赖更少，躯体化程度更高，生活满意度更低。结论：研究结果描述了年轻看护者的主要影响，并强调了确保年轻看护者研究中使用的措施对与该人群相关的问题敏感的重要性。
Objective: To investigate the psychosocial impact of young caregiving by empirically validating prominent qualitative themes.. This was achieved through developing an inventory called the Young Caregiver of Parents Inventory (YCOPI) designed to assess these themes and by comparing young caregivers and noncaregivers. Method: Two hundred forty-five participants between 10 and 25 years completed questionnaires: 100 young caregivers and 145 noncaregivers. In addition to the YCOPI, the following variables were measured: demographics, caregiving context, social support, appraisal, coping strategies, and adjustment (health, life satisfaction, distress, positive affect). Results: Eight reliable factors emerged from the YCOPI that described the diverse impacts of caregiving and reflected the key themes reported in prior research. The factors were related to most caregiving context variables and theoretically relevant stress and coping variables. Compared with noncaregivers, young caregivers reported higher levels of young caregiving impact, less reliance on problem-solving coping, and higher somatization and lower life satisfaction. Conclusions: Findings delineate key impacts of young caregiving and highlight the importance of ensuring that measures used in research on young caregivers are sensitive to issues pertinent to this population.