Factors that impact Chinese Canadian family carers’ intention to use long-term care facilities and home support services
Year: 2020
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The demography of Canada has been changing dramatically, and a rapidly growing population of aging Chinese Canadians poses unprecedented challenges to the health care system. Understanding the service needs of Chinese Canadian seniors will grow in importance. Chinese tradition values filial piety which can pose challenges for the decision-making process of Chinese Canadian family carers in relation to nursing home placement of a loved one. Guided by Andersen’s Behavioral Model, this researcher endeavored to measure the relationships between Predisposing factors (i.e., demographic information, filial piety attitudes), Enabling factors (i.e., family carer’s ability, willingness to access health services, and their regular source of care), and Need (i.e., the level of carer burden) and family carers’ intention to use health services. A quantitative design was employed to explore and identify factors that influence family carers’ intention to use health services and long term care for their parent. Data collection for this study occurred over one-month period from September, 2019 to Octomber, 2019 in Winnipeg. Quantitative findings suggested that only the predisposing factor of carer gender was significantly correlated with the carer’s decision to institutionalize their parents. More specifically, female Chinese Canadian family carers were less likely to use a long-term care facility. A borderline significant relationship (Predisposing factor) (p < 0.1) was found between the carer relationship to the care recipient and use of a long-term care facility. Content analysis revealed that social support, language barriers, cultural expectations, and finances all played an important role as barriers or facilitators in family carers’ decision-making process. This study’s findings have several important implications for nursing practice.
Source: Mspace (University of Manitoba)
Author: Liying Qiao
Language: English
Subfield: Geriatrics and Gerontology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3016018416