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The Association Between Caregiving Burden, the Caregiving Relationship, and Caregiver Health
Purpose:
To determine the mediating effects of the quality of family caregivers' relationships with their older adult care recipients on the association between care-giver burden and caregivers' mental health and perceived general health.
Method:
Participants included 2,431 family/informal caregivers from the 2022 National Study of Caregiving. Mediator path analysis models adjusting for caregivers' age, sex, and race/ethnicity were used to test the direct and indirect effects of caregiver burden on mental health and perceived general health via the caregiving relationship.
Results:
Quality of the caregiving relationship partially mediated the association between caregiver burden and mental health, and also partially mediated the association between caregiver burden and perceived general health.
Conclusion:
Caregiver burden and quality of the caregiving relationship are influential factors in caregiver health. Strategies addressing caregiver burden and the caregiving relationship simultaneously could yield potential benefits. [Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 51(5), 27-34.].
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