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Article: Care Tasks in the Stress Process for Family Caregivers in Urban China

TitleCare Tasks in the Stress Process for Family Caregivers in Urban China
Authors
KeywordsCaregiver burden
Depression
Emotional care
Monetary support
Physical care
Issue Date2017
PublisherRoutledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/wcli20
Citation
Clinical Gerontologist, 2017, v. 40 n. 5, p. 428-434 How to Cite?
AbstractObjectives: To explore the role of care tasks in the caregiving stress process, this study tested the relationships between distinct care tasks, primary stressors, caregiver burden, and depressive symptoms among caregivers. Methods: The data were collected from a sample of 754 caregivers who provided care for frail, elderly family members in Shanghai, China. Path analysis was conducted to identify the relationships between the three types of care tasks (monetary support, physical care and emotional care), the caregivers’ background, primary stressors, caregiver burden, and depressive symptoms. Results: The results show distinct paths through the three types of care tasks in the stress process. Caregivers with higher incomes were more likely to provide monetary support to their care recipients. Being a female caregiver and having greater primary stressors were associated with more involvement in physical care, which predicted higher levels of caregiver burden and further exacerbated depression. The cognitive impairment of care recipients was associated with greater emotional care, with the caregivers who provided more emotional care reporting higher levels of caregiver burden but lower levels of depression. Conclusions: This study underscores the importance of considering different types of care tasks to properly understand caregiving stress across cultures and societies. Clinical Implications: This study highlights the need for interventions to alleviate the caregiving stress by helping family caregivers understand the importance of emotional care, training them to appropriately meet the psychological and social needs of their care recipients and providing financial support for caregivers with lower income to purchase respite care services. © 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/245243
ISSN
2023 Impact Factor: 2.6
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.932
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DC FieldValueLanguage
dc.contributor.authorLiu, J-
dc.contributor.authorLu, N-
dc.contributor.authorLou, VW-
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-18T02:07:11Z-
dc.date.available2017-09-18T02:07:11Z-
dc.date.issued2017-
dc.identifier.citationClinical Gerontologist, 2017, v. 40 n. 5, p. 428-434-
dc.identifier.issn0731-7115-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/245243-
dc.description.abstractObjectives: To explore the role of care tasks in the caregiving stress process, this study tested the relationships between distinct care tasks, primary stressors, caregiver burden, and depressive symptoms among caregivers. Methods: The data were collected from a sample of 754 caregivers who provided care for frail, elderly family members in Shanghai, China. Path analysis was conducted to identify the relationships between the three types of care tasks (monetary support, physical care and emotional care), the caregivers’ background, primary stressors, caregiver burden, and depressive symptoms. Results: The results show distinct paths through the three types of care tasks in the stress process. Caregivers with higher incomes were more likely to provide monetary support to their care recipients. Being a female caregiver and having greater primary stressors were associated with more involvement in physical care, which predicted higher levels of caregiver burden and further exacerbated depression. The cognitive impairment of care recipients was associated with greater emotional care, with the caregivers who provided more emotional care reporting higher levels of caregiver burden but lower levels of depression. Conclusions: This study underscores the importance of considering different types of care tasks to properly understand caregiving stress across cultures and societies. Clinical Implications: This study highlights the need for interventions to alleviate the caregiving stress by helping family caregivers understand the importance of emotional care, training them to appropriately meet the psychological and social needs of their care recipients and providing financial support for caregivers with lower income to purchase respite care services. © 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherRoutledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/wcli20-
dc.relation.ispartofClinical Gerontologist-
dc.rightsPreprint: This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in [JOURNAL TITLE] on [date of publication], available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/[Article DOI]. Postprint: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in [JOURNAL TITLE] on [date of publication], available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/[Article DOI].-
dc.subjectCaregiver burden-
dc.subjectDepression-
dc.subjectEmotional care-
dc.subjectMonetary support-
dc.subjectPhysical care-
dc.titleCare Tasks in the Stress Process for Family Caregivers in Urban China-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailLou, VW: wlou@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authorityLou, VW=rp00607-
dc.description.naturelink_to_subscribed_fulltext-
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/07317115.2017.1305033-
dc.identifier.pmid28459359-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-85018387990-
dc.identifier.hkuros277110-
dc.identifier.volume40-
dc.identifier.issue5-
dc.identifier.spage428-
dc.identifier.epage434-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000413837900010-
dc.publisher.placeUnited States-
dc.identifier.issnl0731-7115-

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