The Relationship between informal caregiving, wellbeing and health behaviour over the lifecourse.

生命历程中非正式护理、福祉和健康行为之间的关系。

• 批准号: 2566727
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2566727
• 关键词: Relationship; between; informal; caregiving; wellbeing

In the UK, around 7 million people are estimated to be Informal caregivers which accounts for around £119 billion in economic contributions. Some investigations have suggested an association between caregiving and a higher disease burden. However, evidence is often based on small, cross-sectional studies that neglected caregiving in the earlier adult life or failed to consider the rewarding aspects of caregiving. To address these knowledge gaps, the proposed research aims to investigate the relationship between informal caregiving, well-being and health behaviours of caregivers over the lifecourse. Objectives include:1. Estimating the effect of informal caregiving on the trajectories of well-being and health behaviours in young carers (10-15 years old), young adult carers (16-29 yo), adult carers (30-50 yo) and older adult carers (50+).2. Identifying other protective and harmful characteristics of the caregiving experience on well-being and health behaviour that might explain health differences.3. Assessing the period effect of the 2020/21 COVID-19 pandemic on the trajectories of wellbeing and health behaviour of caregivers compared to non-caregivers across life stage.4. Applying the effort-reward-imbalance model to the caregiving experience and testing whether effort-reward-imbalance modifies the relationship between caregiving, well-being and outcomes. 5. Examining causal inference between caregiving and outcome measures by estimating the effect of transitions into and out of caregiving on trajectories in wellbeing and health behaviours.To achieve this, a secondary data analysis will be performed using existing data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing as well as their corresponding COVID-19 substudies. These data sets contain information on caregiving intensity, relationship between caregiver and recipient and other characteristics. Data will be analysed using advanced quantitative techniques, such as Growth curve models, piece-wise growth-curve modelThe lifecourse approach links directly to the desires pathway and will result in a substantial knowledge gain because investigating the effect of the caregiving experience on health behaviour is original. Likewise, the application of the effort-reward-imbalance on caregiving is novel and the focus on the rewarding aspects of caregiving will enable to investigate caregiving from a different perspective.Relevance for policy and research.

在英国，估计约有700万人是非正式护理人员，他们的经济贡献约为1190亿英镑。一些调查表明，护理与较高的疾病负担之间存在关联。然而，证据通常是基于小的、横断面的研究，这些研究忽视了成年早期的照顾，或者没有考虑到照顾的回报方面。为了解决这些知识差距，提出的研究旨在调查在生命过程中照顾者的非正式照顾，福祉和健康行为之间的关系。目标包括:1。估计非正式照顾对年轻照顾者（10-15岁）、年轻成人照顾者（16-29岁）、成年照顾者（30-50岁）和老年成人照顾者（50岁以上）的福祉和健康行为轨迹的影响。2 .确定护理经验对幸福和健康行为的其他保护和有害特征，这些特征可能解释健康差异。3 .评估2020/21年COVID-19大流行对护理人员与非护理人员在整个生命阶段的福祉和健康行为轨迹的阶段性影响。将努力-回报失衡模型应用于护理体验，并检验努力-回报失衡是否改变了护理、幸福感和结果之间的关系。5. 通过估计进入和退出护理对幸福和健康行为轨迹的影响，检查护理和结果测量之间的因果推理。为了实现这一目标，将使用英国家庭纵向研究和英国老龄化纵向研究及其相应的COVID-19子研究的现有数据进行二次数据分析。这些数据集包含照顾强度、照顾者和接受者之间的关系以及其他特征的信息。数据将使用先进的定量技术进行分析，如增长曲线模型、分段增长曲线模型。生命历程方法直接与愿望途径联系起来，并将导致大量知识的获得，因为调查护理经验对健康行为的影响是原创的。同样，将努力-回报-不平衡理论应用于护理也是新颖的，关注护理的回报方面将使我们能够从不同的角度来研究护理。政策和研究的相关性。