Fuller-Thomson E, Minkler M
Health Soc Work. 2000 May;25(2):109-18. doi: 10.1093/hsw/25.2.109.
Social workers are seeing, in health care settings, an increasing number of grandparent caregivers among their clients. A disproportionate number of these are African American. This article compares the demographic and physical and mental health characteristics of African American grandparents who are raising their grandchildren with non-caregiving African American grandparents, using the National Survey of Families and Households (1992-94). Caregivers reported significantly higher levels of limitations in four of five activities of daily living (ADL) and were almost twice as likely as their peers to report clinically relevant levels of depression.
在医疗保健环境中，社会工作者发现其服务对象中祖父母辈照顾孙辈的人数日益增多。其中非裔美国人的比例过高。本文利用全国家庭和住户调查（1992 - 1994年），比较了抚养孙辈的非裔美国祖父母与不承担照顾责任的非裔美国祖父母的人口统计学特征以及身心健康状况。照顾者在五项日常生活活动（ADL）中有四项报告的受限程度显著更高，而且他们报告有临床相关抑郁水平的可能性几乎是非照顾者同伴的两倍。
