Litwin H, Abramowitz L
Paul Baerwald School of Social Work, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, 91905, Jerusalem, Israel.
J Cross Cult Gerontol. 1993 Jan;8(1):1-15. doi: 10.1007/BF00973796.
The rate of informal in-home support generally provided by 120 filial relatives of temporarily hospitalized elders in Israel was compared on three measures of ethnicity: (1) ethnic identity (Ashkenazi or Sepharadi), (2) social class and (3) traditional religious orientation. Additional comparisons controlled for caregivers' sociodemographic characteristics and care-related need variables. Multivariate analysis confirmed that traditional religious orientation was the only measure of ethnicity to distinguish between levels of informal support, even when controlling for dependency levels of the care-recipient. The greatest amount of variance in informal support scores, however, was explained by ADL scores and length of dependency, giving support to the leveling effect of dependency. The findings give partial support to the need for ethnicsensitive treatment of informal carers and their elderly relatives.
对以色列临时住院老年人的120名孝顺亲属通常提供的非正式家庭支持率，根据三项种族指标进行了比较：(1) 种族身份（阿什肯纳兹人或塞法迪人），(2) 社会阶层，以及(3) 传统宗教取向。另外的比较对照顾者的社会人口特征和与护理相关的需求变量进行了控制。多变量分析证实，即使在控制了受照顾者的依赖程度之后，传统宗教取向也是区分非正式支持水平的唯一种族指标。然而，非正式支持得分中最大的差异是由日常生活活动能力得分和依赖时长来解释的，这支持了依赖的平抑效应。这些发现部分支持了对非正式照顾者及其老年亲属进行种族敏感治疗的必要性。
