"Coping With Frustration" Classes: Development and Preliminary Outcomes With Women Who Care for Relatives With Dementia

Gallagher‐Thompson, Dolores; DeVries, Helen M.

doi:10.1093/geront/34.4.548

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“…Some support groups are developed specificaUy for carers of stroke patients and positive carer reactions to stroke clubs have been demonstrated (Printz-Fedderson, 1990 Although support groups and stroke clubs may be effective ui aUeviatmg the effects of strain and distress, some researchers have suggested that they may be less effective than structured group interventions or individual and family treatments that can individuaUse the treatment to the caregiver's needs (Teri, 1994;Gallagher-Thompson and DeVries, 1994).…”

Section: Emotional Interventionmentioning

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Caregiver strain in spouses of stroke patients

Blake¹,

Lincoln²,

Clarke

2003

Clin Rehabil

107

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Objective: To test the ability of a previously generated logistic regression model to predict caregiver strain from carer mood, negative affectivity and perceived patient functional ability. Design: Postal prospective survey. Setting: Spouses of community-residing patients identified from hospital stroke registers. Method: Spouses were assessed at three and six months after stroke. A previously derived equation was used to make predictions at three months of their level of strain at six months, which were compared with observed outcomes. Measures: Spouses were asked to complete the Caregiver Strain Index (CSI), the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12), the Positive and Negative Affectivity Schedule (PANAS) and to assess patients' independence in activities of daily living on the Extended Activities of Daily Living Scale (EADL). Results: Of 409 stroke patients, 276 had an identifiable co-resident spouse and 116 (42%) completed the measures. At three months after stroke, 39 carers (34%) were under significant strain with 40 (35%) under strain at six months. The predictive model using the GHQ-12, PANAS and EADL at three months was 78% accurate in predicting levels of caregiver strain at six months. Conclusion: Carers at risk of later strain could be identified for further followup. Services to provide emotional support to carers might be effective in the reduction of carer strain.

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Section: Emotional Interventionmentioning

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Caregiver strain in spouses of stroke patients

Blake¹,

Lincoln²,

Clarke

2003

Clin Rehabil

107

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“…One example is the anger management programme developed by Gallagher- Thompson & DeVries (1994), who trained an exclusively female group of caregivers to cope with the anger and frustration they experienced in attempting to deal with the impossible demands of caregiving and other responsibilities. Their participants were taught to use relaxation and cognitive restructuring as a solution to the lack of an adequate health-care system.…”

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Health, Stress and Coping among Women Caregivers

Lee

1999

J Health Psychol

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Informal family-based care of dependent adults places a significant burden on caregivers. The impact of caregiving on subjective wellbeing, preventive behaviours, lifestyle and employment is well documented, and there is good evidence for increases in risk factors for serious illness, although evidence on actual incidence of major illness varies between studies. The individual-based focus of much research on this topic has tended to obscure the social and cultural forces underlying the fact that the majority of family caregivers are women, and to ignore the gender inequities which are perpetuated by an assumption that family caregiving is naturally the work of women. This article reviews evidence on the burden of caregiving, and argues for psychological research which addresses issues of public policy rather than the individual woman and her personal ability to cope.

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“…Affective involvement is a mea-being [71]. Other studies have shown that intensive individualized caregiver interventions not only decrease sure of each member's emotional investment in another.…”

Section: Impact Of Pituitary Disease On the Family Caregivermentioning

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The Impact of Pituitary Disease on the Family Caregiver and Overall Family Functioning

Weitzner

Knutzen²

1998

Psychother Psychosom

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Chronic medical illness not only affects the patient but the entire family. The family system undergoes a tremendous change in focus during the acute illness, with members marshaling their resources to help the ill member. This inward focus is costly, producing profound stress. Often, family communication styles change to protect the family system and prior functioning. When the stress of caring for an ill member becomes chronic, as is seen in pituitary disease, the initially adaptive changes in family functioning may become problematic even in those families with previously healthy coping. Those families with previously less healthy functioning become even more dysfunctional. Each family identifies a caregiver for their ill member. This caregiver also experiences significant stress related to caregiving demands. Caregiver adaptation to the stress depends on how the stress is perceived, as well as the caregiver’s coping patterns and availability of and satisfaction with social support. These elements comprise a stress process model of caregiving, which has been well-validated in dementia caregiving research. Although the majority of research has focused on dementia and cancer caregiving, identified issues have applicability to caregiving and family issues related to pituitary disease. This report will review: (1) the field of caregiving research, focusing on a stress process model; (2) those issues identified in prior caregiving research which have applicability in caregiving for patients with pituitary disease; (3) stresses on the family system; (4) assessment of family functioning, and (5) interventions for caregivers and areas for future research.

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"Coping With Frustration" Classes: Development and Preliminary Outcomes With Women Who Care for Relatives With Dementia

Cited by 107 publications

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Caregiver strain in spouses of stroke patients

Caregiver strain in spouses of stroke patients

Health, Stress and Coping among Women Caregivers

The Impact of Pituitary Disease on the Family Caregiver and Overall Family Functioning

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