Interpersonal Influences Between the Care Provider's Burnout and the Older Care Recipient's Quality of Life

Informal Caregiver Burnout? Development of a Theoretical Framework to Understand the Impact of Caregiving

“…Yet it appears that there is no relationship between duration of care and burnout (Sugihara et al, 2004; Lindström et al, 2011; Kokurcan et al, 2015), and only a weak link to burden (Pinquart and Sörensen, 2003; Adelman et al, 2014). A similar pattern appears regarding time spent caregiving per week (intensity) (Angermeyer et al, 2006; Truzzi et al, 2012; Adelman et al, 2014; Kokurcan et al, 2015), and living with the care-recipient has also been highlighted as an inconclusive stressor for subjective burden and burnout (Cuijpers and Stam, 2000; Cheung and Chow, 2011; Yan, 2014; Chiao et al, 2015).…”

“…Some studies have compared different populations in their sample (often one by one) (e.g., Weiss, 2002; Ybema et al, 2002; Lindström et al, 2010; Tramonti et al, 2019), but not enough to conclude about a particular risk profile. The autonomy (or functional impairment) of the care-recipient is a factor often related to caregiving subjective burden and burnout (Cheung and Chow, 2011; Yan, 2014; Chiao et al, 2015; Lynch et al, 2018), but this variable remains specific to some populations (e.g., dementia). The common ground is the intensity of the symptoms in each health issue, which appears to be more related to caregiving subjective burden (Chiao et al, 2015).…”

“…The common ground is the intensity of the symptoms in each health issue, which appears to be more related to caregiving subjective burden (Chiao et al, 2015). Such evidence has also been highlighted for informal caregiver burnout in caregivers of individuals with mental illness (Kokurcan et al, 2015) or dementia (Cheung and Chow, 2011; Truzzi et al, 2012; Yan, 2014), and in caregivers of children with disability (Demirhan et al, 2011; Basaran et al, 2013), chronic disease (Riva et al, 2014), or comorbid issues (Gérain and Zech, 2018). Beyond the health issue itself, correlative analyses have also shown a relationship between recipient’s well-being and depressive symptoms on the one hand and subjective burden and informal caregiver burnout on the other, which suggests a mutual influence of the emotional states in the dyad (Ybema et al, 2002; Yılmaz et al, 2009; Adelman et al, 2014; Kindt et al, 2015).…”

Assessments of Stress of Conscience, Perceptions of Conscience, Burnout, and Social Support Before and After Implementation of a Participatory Action-Research-Based Intervention

“…Stress of conscience has been found to be negatively associated with care quality in care for older adults (From, 2011). Burnout has been found to be negatively related to quality of care in community mental health (Salyers et al, 2015), and care provider's burnout has been found to have negative effects on the older care recipient's quality of life in home service (Cheung & Chow, 2011). Reasonably, having high levels of stress of conscience, EE, and DP may seriously affect HCP well-being, the quality of care they provide, and the older person's quality of life.…”