Zodikoff Bradley D
Adelphi University School of Social Work, Garden City, NY 11530, USA.
Home Health Care Serv Q. 2007;26(2):1-20. doi: 10.1300/J027v26n02_01.
Prior research has consistently overlooked spousal care recipients' attitudes toward service use within the caregiver-care recipient dyadic context. To address this gap in knowledge, this exploratory study collected data from both caregiver and care recipient spousal informants to compare their community service use attitudes by gender. This study employed a purposive sample of 30 older spousal caregiver-care recipient couples (N = 60). Service use attitude measures were adapted from the Community Service Attitude Inventory. For the entire sample, caregivers and care recipients had similar attitude scores at the group level of comparison. In the caregiver subsample, female spousal caregivers reported a higher level of confidence in service system compared with male spousal caregivers. Male spousal caregivers reported a higher worry and fear attitude compared with female spousal caregivers. In the care recipient subsample, female spousal care recipients reported a higher wait-and-see attitude compared Volume 26 Number 2 2007 with male spousal care recipients. The findings support the need to assess specific gender-related service use attitudes of older spousal couples in research and practice contexts.
以往的研究一直忽视了在照顾者与被照顾者二元关系背景下，配偶照顾接受者对服务使用的态度。为了填补这一知识空白，这项探索性研究收集了照顾者和照顾接受者配偶 informant 的数据，以按性别比较他们对社区服务使用的态度。本研究采用了 30 对老年配偶照顾者 - 照顾接受者夫妇的立意样本（N = 60）。服务使用态度测量采用了社区服务态度量表。对于整个样本，在组间比较层面，照顾者和照顾接受者的态度得分相似。在照顾者子样本中，与男性配偶照顾者相比，女性配偶照顾者对服务系统的信心水平更高。与女性配偶照顾者相比，男性配偶照顾者报告的担忧和恐惧态度更高。在照顾接受者子样本中，与男性配偶照顾接受者相比，女性配偶照顾接受者报告的观望态度更高。研究结果支持在研究和实践中评估老年配偶夫妇特定的与性别相关的服务使用态度的必要性。
