Introduction:The study is underpinned by the research of people providing care to relatives after a cerebrovascular accident outside the sphere of public institutions -so called informal carers. The aim was to create a typology of these carers, reflecting their way of constructing identity, their attitude to their own emotions, their reflections on and experience with caring, their forms of communication, and how they work with information. Methods: The research was led by a qualitative approach with the use of the principles of biographical research. It is based on thirty semistructured interviews. Areas were identified within these interviews in which the carers reflected on themselves. Through these areas, the carers differ in the ways in which they experience their roles of carers. The research was complemented with a questionnaire survey in order to acquire demographic and other data from the same sample. Results: The result of the study is a typology which contains five pure types of informal carers who provide care to family members after a Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA): (1) rational, (2) self-construing, (3) depressive, (4) traditional and (5) optimistic. Discussion: The results of the study are discussed in the context of caregiving in general, and in comparison with research focusing on the ways in which carers cope with decreased autonomy, emotions, gender, or their approach to obtaining information. Conclusions: Within the above types, carers differed in the variety of ways in which they controlled their emotions, in the different relationships to self, or in their reflections on the future. Which category an individual carer fell into depended on the volume of care they provided, how long they had been providing it, the possibilities to obtain support or assistance, and the personality of the carer. This typology may be useful from the analytical perspective, as well as from the perspective of potential interventions aimed at the dissemination of information and the sharing of the carers' experience.
The summary research report describes and summarizes the goals, course and results of the TAČR–VISNEP project. The aim of the experimental development project was to create an information system (IS) for informal carers (ICs) for a person after stroke using modern information technologies in the technical and non-technical spheres of research. IS will allow users to obtain relevant, timely and interconnected information on support networks to prevent their possible social isolation and exclusion, physical and psychological exhaustion, health disorders and other risk factors in their difficult life situation. The purpose of IS is to contribute to improved awareness of ICs support systems across other long-term care providers, in particular public administration, general practitioners etc. The intent of the project was to create and verify a pilot model of IS in Moravian-Silesian Region, which can subsequently be applied in other regions and / or other target ICs groups. The presented results of the project are based on data obtained by research procedures of qualitative and quantitative methodology in the process of agile software development.
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