The impact of caregiving burden on caregivers' anxiety about aging.

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Title The impact of caregiving burden on caregivers' anxiety about aging.
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Nursing
Department Nursing
Author Wullschleger, Karla Scroggin
Date 1995-08
Description This study examined the relationship between caregiving burden and the caregivers anxiety about their own aging. Other related sociodemographic, social, and social support factors were also examined. The 894 respondents in this research were identified from the mailing lists of 50 support groups for caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease from 16 states. The data were collected from mailed, self-report questionnaires. Only caregiver burden, relationship to care receiver, and satisfaction with support were statistically significant in their association with anxiety about aging. When these variables were placed in a step-wise regression analysis, however, only caregiver burden had a significant influence on anxiety about aging (Beta =.32) explaining 11% of the variance. Caregivers who experienced high levels of burden were likely to have the most anxiety about their own aging. Also, caregiver burden was even more strongly associated with anxiety about aging after caregivers placed their loved ones in Nursing; facilities. Long-term implications of these findings are discussed.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Alzheimer's Disease; Family Support; Personal Relationships; Social Work
Subject MESH Caregivers; Mental Health; Aged; Aging
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MS
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "The impact of caregiving burden on caregivers' anxiety about aging." Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Print version of "The impact of caregiving burden on caregivers' anxiety about aging." available at J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collection. RC39.5 1995 .W84.
Rights Management © Karla Scroggin Wullschleger.
Format application/pdf
Format Medium application/pdf
Identifier us-etd2,10712
Source Original: University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library (no longer available).
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Setname ir_etd
ID 192351
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6mc9dgj
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