Understanding the Relationship Between Social Support and Financial Status Among Informal Caregivers
Year: 2018
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Informal caregivers support chronically ill or aging populations to live independently in the community for longer, which is associated with lowered health care costs and improved health care outcomes for patients.At the same time, existing literature has shown that informal caregivers suffer from compassion fatigue and burden due to their caregiving tasks.Causes of burden are wide-ranging, but many studies agree that they include caregiver support network, financial status, sociodemographic characteristics, and care recipient characteristics (i.e., health status, race, gender).There is a gap in the literature on caregiver burden regarding how these identified causes relate to one another in general terms, and in their contribution towards the final burden experienced by the caregiver.This thesis will build on existing scholarship to analyze the relationship between previously identified causes of caregiver burden, specifically caregiver support environment and financial status of the caregiver, proposing that these causes may interact, contribute and/or compound on one another.To complete the analysis, this thesis uses Ordinary Least Squares regression techniques on a nationally representative survey dataset, the National Study on Caregiving (NSOC), collected by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Author: Christina Rotondo
Language: English
Topic: Nursing care and research
Subfield: Research and Theory
Field: Nursing
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2810350555