Longitudinal trajectories of subjective care stressors: the role of personal, dyadic, and family resources

Abstract

Findings contribute to caregiver intervention efforts by highlighting important resources associated with subjective stressors across time.

Effect of Different Sources Support on Adaptation in Families of Patient With Moderate-to-Severe Dementia in China

“…Studies of Zairt and Bangerter have also shown that most of the families have conflicts related to caregiving. 16,50 And conflicts between many adult children are mostly focused on the task of caring for the elderly and economic issues, 17,19 which seriously affect the FA and relatives' support in the patient's family. Interventions intended to promote FA and kinship support can be carried out by helping adult children to reasonably resolve role conflicts and promoting effective communication to reasonably distribute tasks between adult children.…”

“…In an effort to control the confounding effect produced by family stressors, they were measured too. According to the characteristic of stressors in family of patients with dementia, 16,39,40 the stressors were measured by The Revised Memory and Behavior Problems Checklist (RMBPC), Activity of Daily Living (ADL), and Family Inventory of Life Events and Changes (FILE).…”

“…26 Besides that, researchers have summarized that stressor in families of patients with dementia included initial stressor (memory and behavior problems of patients, defect of ADL of patients) and pile up (additional hardship above and beyond the initial stressor). 16,26,39,40 Based on the above hypotheses, hypothesis model showing the effect and pathway of different sources of support on family adaptation was formed and shown in detail in Figure 2. It contained one latent variable and 8 observed variables.…”

“…12 As a result, adult children caregivers always experience heavier burden than spouse caregivers. 8 If they cannot adapt to this situation, it will lead to depression, 13,14 sleep disturbance, even thoughts of suicide, 15 family conflicts [16][17][18][19] , and economic vulnerability. [18][19][20] These outcomes of family maladaptation threaten life quality of patients with dementia and even have the possibility to start up a vicious circle.…”

Qualitative study of challenges of caring for a person with heart failure

“…48,49 Dyadic relational quality is of paramount importance in other caregiving settings, including dementia caregiving, where higher relationship quality has been linked to lower subjective care stressors, such as role captivity and role overload. 50 Thus, educational and support services for caregivers should consider promoting positive relational functioning within the caregiver/care-recipient dyad.…”