Nam Su-Jung, Park Eun-Young
a Department of Home Economics Education and.
b Department of Secondary Special Education , College of Education, Jeonju University , Wansan-gu , Republic of Korea.
J Ment Health. 2017 Feb;26(1):50-56. doi: 10.1080/09638237.2016.1276538. Epub 2017 Jan 13.
Individuals with intellectual disabilities (IWID) need intensive long-term care. Consequently, caregivers experience not only economic burdens but also tension, depression, insecurity, etc.
This study aimed to provide basic data and materials for preparing policy alternatives to improve caregiver quality of life of by examining relationships between IWID caregiving burden and depression.
This study involved secondary analysis of data from the 2011 Survey on the Actual Conditions of Individuals with Developmental Disabilities, conducted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Korea. Effects of caregivers' characteristics, caregiving time and cost, and perceptions of time and cost, on depression were analyzed.
All components of caregiving burden and depression were significantly higher in the 1st grade, designating the most severe disabilities. Overall, caregiving burden tended to be higher in female caregivers, the unemployed, parents, co-residents, and people with health problems. Caregivers' characteristics such as spouse relationship, having health problems, and perception of caregiving time and cost were associated with depression.
Caregiving burden and depression vary depending on the characteristics of IWID and their caregivers. Services for decreasing caregiving burden may be optimized by focusing on these characteristics.
智障人士需要长期的密集护理。因此，照顾者不仅要承受经济负担，还要面对紧张、抑郁、不安全感等问题。
本研究旨在通过研究智障人士照顾负担与抑郁之间的关系，为制定改善照顾者生活质量的政策选择提供基础数据和资料。
本研究对韩国卫生与福利部进行的2011年发育障碍人士实际状况调查的数据进行了二次分析。分析了照顾者的特征、照顾时间和成本以及对时间和成本的认知对抑郁的影响。
在一级（表示最严重残疾）中，照顾负担和抑郁的所有组成部分均显著更高。总体而言，女性照顾者、失业者、父母、共同居住者和有健康问题的人照顾负担往往更高。照顾者的特征，如配偶关系、有健康问题以及对照顾时间和成本的认知与抑郁有关。
照顾负担和抑郁因智障人士及其照顾者的特征而异。通过关注这些特征，可以优化减轻照顾负担的服务。
