Department of Health and Physical Education, The Education University of Hong Kong.
School of Aging Studies, University of South Florida.
Psychol Aging. 2020 Feb;35(1):1-7. doi: 10.1037/pag0000436.
Consistent with the long history within of publishing high impact articles on family caregiving, the current Special Section includes 5 articles that provide important advances, in knowledge and in methodological sophistication, to the study of cognitive difficulty, impairment and family caregiving. One study used daily diary data over 14 days to conduct microlongitudinal analyses of the prospective impact of everyday memory failures on negative affect and marital interactions in older couples. Also relying on dyadic data, 2 other articles addressed the impact of caregiving on family members, including a study of the effects of transitioning to family caregiving over time on well-being in older husbands and wives, and a comparison of primary and secondary caregivers. Together, these articles represent important methodological advances in terms of the use of longitudinal data to study the effects of transition to cognitive impairment and spousal caregiving within the couple, and the inclusion of multiple caregivers to illustrate the impacts of caregiving in the broader family. In addition, two articles examined issues in clinical intervention for caregivers. Both articles offer new insights about the effectiveness of caregiver interventions, with the former focusing on the relative merits of offering intervention components in a flexible way over the manualized approach, and the latter a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis to tease out the relative utility of different intervention characteristics and approaches, with a new lens to look at psychoeducational programs. The implications of these articles for family caregiving and further research advances are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
与在出版有关家庭护理的高影响力文章方面的悠久历史一致，本期特刊包括 5 篇文章，为认知困难、障碍和家庭护理的研究提供了重要的知识和方法上的进展。一项研究使用了 14 天的日常日记数据，对日常记忆失败对老年夫妇负面情绪和婚姻互动的前瞻性影响进行了微观纵向分析。另外两篇文章也依赖于对偶数据，研究了护理对家庭成员的影响，包括一项关于随着时间的推移过渡到家庭护理对老年夫妻幸福感的影响的研究，以及对主要和次要护理人员的比较。这些文章共同代表了在使用纵向数据研究夫妻内部认知障碍和配偶护理的过渡影响方面的重要方法学进展，以及纳入多个护理人员以说明护理在更广泛家庭中的影响。此外，还有两篇文章探讨了护理人员临床干预方面的问题。这两篇文章都提供了关于护理人员干预措施有效性的新见解，前者侧重于以灵活的方式提供干预组件相对于手册方法的相对优点，后者则是对不同干预特征和方法的相对效用进行全面的系统回顾和荟萃分析，为心理教育计划提供了一个新的视角。这些文章对家庭护理和进一步的研究进展的意义进行了讨论。
