Leu Agnes, Wepf Hannah, Sempik Joe, Nagl-Cupal Martin, Becker Saul, Jung Corinna, Frech Marianne
Careum School of Health, Zurich, Switzerland.
Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Health Soc Care Community. 2020 Nov;28(6):2390-2398. doi: 10.1111/hsc.13061. Epub 2020 Jul 14.
Findings from international research emphasis the need of these young people to be identified and recognised. Therefore, a nationwide quantitative study of professionals' awareness was conducted in the Swiss context. Data were collected from professionals working in education, healthcare and social services. The study examined professionals' familiarity with the terms used to describe young people with caring responsibilities; their ability to identify the population in their professional context; their perception of the relevance of the issue; their ability to support them; and their own training needs. Potential study participants were contacted via email. Data were collected using an online survey, which was open for 14 weeks during the period of September to December 2016. Survey data from 2,311 professionals, who reported being regularly in contact with young people with caring responsibilities in their occupational context, were included for analysis. Of all terms presented in the survey, young carer (YC) was the term most familiar to all professionals. Among healthcare and education sector, the percentage of professionals familiar with this term was higher than that among professionals from social services. Professionals from social services were the most likely to consider the issue relevant to their work, those from education were the least likely. Professionals who were familiar with the terms describing YC were more likely to consider the issue relevant to their work. Study results showed that more than half of the respondents had not identified young people with caring responsibilities, and that the ability of participants to identify YC was related to their occupational sector. The perceived ability to support YC was related to their reported ability to recognise them. In order to enable professionals to support YC, raising awareness, providing training for professionals and a national network of existing organisations should be well considered.
国际研究结果强调了识别和认可这些年轻人的必要性。因此，在瑞士开展了一项关于专业人员认知情况的全国性定量研究。数据收集自教育、医疗和社会服务领域的专业人员。该研究考察了专业人员对用于描述承担照料责任的年轻人的术语的熟悉程度；他们在职业环境中识别这一群体的能力；他们对该问题相关性的认知；他们支持这些年轻人的能力；以及他们自身的培训需求。通过电子邮件联系了潜在的研究参与者。数据通过在线调查收集，该调查在2016年9月至12月期间开放了14周。来自2311名专业人员的调查数据被纳入分析，这些专业人员报告称在其职业环境中经常与承担照料责任的年轻人接触。在调查中呈现的所有术语中，“年轻照料者”（YC）是所有专业人员最熟悉的术语。在医疗和教育部门，熟悉该术语的专业人员比例高于社会服务部门的专业人员比例。社会服务部门的专业人员最有可能认为该问题与他们的工作相关，教育部门的专业人员最不可能这样认为。熟悉描述YC术语的专业人员更有可能认为该问题与他们的工作相关。研究结果表明，超过一半的受访者没有识别出承担照料责任的年轻人，而且参与者识别YC的能力与其职业部门有关。对支持YC的感知能力与其报告的识别他们的能力有关。为了使专业人员能够支持YC，提高认识、为专业人员提供培训以及建立现有的全国性组织网络都应得到充分考虑。
