“…While African American caregivers have similar rates of depression and anxiety as White caregivers (Knight, Longmire, Dave, Kim, & David, 2007; Pinquart & Sorensen, 2005), they report more benefits from caregiving (Roth, Dilworth-Anderson, Huang, Gross, & Gitlin, 2015). They have significant increases in positive aspects of caregiving over time (Haley et al, 2004), better scores on measures of positive coping (Roff et al, 2004), and higher health-related quality of life compared with Whites (Moss et al, 2017). However, African American caregivers do report less use of antidepressant medications (Sleath, Thorpe, Landerman, Doyle, & Clipp, 2005) and lower utilization of formal support services for their family members (Scharlach et al, 2006).…”