Academic Section of Geriatric Medicine, University of Glasgow, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow G31 2ER, UK.
J Epidemiol Community Health. 2013 Jan;67(1):95-7. doi: 10.1136/jech-2012-201652. Epub 2012 Aug 8.
Providing informal care has been linked with poor health but has not previously been studied across a whole population. We aimed to study the association between informal care provision and self-reported poor health.
We used data from the UK 2001 Census. The relationship between informal caregiving and poor health was modelled using logistic regression, adjusting for age, sex, marital status, ethnicity, economic activity and educational attainment.
We included 44,465,833 individuals free from permanent sickness or disability. 5,451,902 (12.3%) participants reported providing informal care to another person. There was an association between provision of informal caregiving and self-reported poor health; OR 1.100, 95% CI 1.096 to 1.103. This association remained after adjustment for age, sex, ethnic group, marital status, economic activity and educational attainment. The association also increased with the amount of care provided (hours per week).
Around one in eight of the UK population reports that he or she is an informal caregiver. This activity is associated with poor health, particularly in those providing over 20 h care per week.
提供非正规护理与健康状况不佳有关，但以前并未在整个人群中进行过研究。我们旨在研究非正规护理提供与自我报告的健康状况不佳之间的关系。
我们使用了来自英国 2001 年人口普查的数据。使用逻辑回归模型研究了非正式护理与健康状况不佳之间的关系，并对年龄、性别、婚姻状况、种族、经济活动和教育程度进行了调整。
我们纳入了 44465833 名无永久性疾病或残疾的个体。有 5451902 名（12.3%）参与者报告说他们在照顾另一个人。提供非正式护理与自我报告的健康状况不佳之间存在关联；OR1.100，95%CI1.096 至 1.103。在调整年龄、性别、种族、婚姻状况、经济活动和教育程度后，这种关联仍然存在。这种关联也随着护理时间的增加（每周护理小时数）而增加。
英国约有八分之一的人口报告说他或她是非正式护理人员。这种活动与健康状况不佳有关，特别是在每周提供超过 20 小时护理的人群中。
