Department of Sociology and Gerontology, Miami University, Oxford, OH, United States.
Sociology Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States.
Front Public Health. 2024 Jul 1;12:1337838. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1337838. eCollection 2024.
Family caregivers may be at particular risk for social isolation and loneliness. Multiple factors can impact caregivers' health and well-being outcomes, including loneliness. Guided by an adaptation of the Stress Process Model of Caregiving, this study uses the 2019 National Survey of Older Americans Act Participants (NSOAAP)-Family Caregiver Support module to inform efforts to reduce loneliness through family caregiver support programs. A hierarchical multiple regression model reveals that caregivers who report more loneliness are more likely to be female, Hispanic, living alone, not a child or other caregiver of the care recipient, have a care recipient with 3+ ADL needs, experience more social life conflict related to caregiving, experience less joy in caregiving, feel less appreciated by the care recipient, feel less support in caregiving, and attend counseling. This study helps advance the goals of the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers, and the findings underscore the importance of continuing and expanding efforts to address loneliness and related well-being outcomes among family caregivers.
家庭照顾者可能特别容易感到社交孤立和孤独。多种因素会影响照顾者的健康和幸福结果，包括孤独感。本研究以照顾者压力过程模型为指导，利用 2019 年《美国老年人法案全国调查-家庭照顾者支持模块》，通过家庭照顾者支持计划来减轻孤独感。分层多元回归模型显示，报告孤独感较强的照顾者更有可能是女性、西班牙裔、独居、不是照顾对象的子女或其他照顾者、照顾对象有 3 项及以上日常生活活动需求、在照顾方面经历更多社会生活冲突、在照顾中体验到较少的快乐、感觉不被照顾对象感激、在照顾中感到较少支持，以及参加咨询。本研究有助于推进《支持家庭照顾者国家战略》的目标，研究结果强调了继续和扩大努力解决家庭照顾者孤独感和相关幸福感问题的重要性。
