帕金森病护理、护理负担水平、与护理相关的压力及护理人员健康状况。
Parkinson's Disease Caregiving, Level of Care Burden, Caregiving-Related Strain, and Caregiver Health.
作者信息
Olson Julie S, Persad-Clem Reema, Kueppers George C, Cothran Fawn A, Longacre Margaret L
机构信息
College of Health Sciences, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA 19038, USA.
National Alliance for Caregiving, Washington, DC 20036, USA.
出版信息
Healthcare (Basel). 2025 Jun 26;13(13):1520. doi: 10.3390/healthcare13131520.
Caregiving can be a challenging experience, particularly for caregivers of people with Parkinson's disease, given the array of motor and neuropsychiatric symptoms. Elevated care tasks and demands related to these symptoms may result in greater care burden, heightened caregiving-related strain, and, in turn, poorer health for Parkinson's disease (PD) caregivers compared to non-PD caregivers. Guided by the Stress Process Model, the purpose of this study was to explore the pathways connecting PD caregiving and caregiver health, with attention to the role of care burden and caregiving-related strain. We applied path analysis in a structural equation modeling framework to data from 3116 PD and non-PD caregivers participating in the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP's 2015 and 2020 surveys. We estimated pathways between PD caregiving, care burden, caregiving-related strain (i.e., emotional, physical, and financial), and caregiver self-reported health simultaneously, then decomposed these pathways into total, indirect, and direct effects. Findings show PD caregiving is indirectly linked to poorer health among caregivers through increased care burden and heightened caregiving-related strain, with additional path analysis models pointing to physical strain as an important component of caregiving-related strain in mediating the associations between PD caregiving and overall health. Our findings suggest a need to be especially attentive to the accumulation of care burden and caregiving-related strain-particularly physical strain-among PD caregivers, given the potential consequences for caregiver health. Solutions are needed, such as caregiver screening and caregiver-specific care plans, to better support reductions in burden and strain among PD caregivers, thereby promoting their overall health.
照顾他人可能是一段具有挑战性的经历,特别是对于帕金森病患者的照顾者而言,因为患者会出现一系列运动和神经精神症状。与这些症状相关的护理任务和需求增加,可能会导致更大的护理负担、更高的照顾相关压力,进而与非帕金森病患者的照顾者相比,帕金森病(PD)患者的照顾者健康状况更差。本研究以压力过程模型为指导,旨在探讨帕金森病照顾与照顾者健康之间的联系途径,同时关注护理负担和照顾相关压力的作用。我们在结构方程建模框架中应用路径分析,对参与2015年和2020年全国照顾者联盟及美国退休人员协会调查的3116名帕金森病患者和非帕金森病患者的照顾者的数据进行分析。我们同时估计了帕金森病照顾、护理负担、照顾相关压力(即情感、身体和经济方面)与照顾者自我报告健康之间的途径,然后将这些途径分解为总效应、间接效应和直接效应。研究结果表明,帕金森病照顾通过增加护理负担和加剧照顾相关压力,与照顾者较差的健康状况存在间接联系,另外的路径分析模型指出身体压力是照顾相关压力的一个重要组成部分,在介导帕金森病照顾与整体健康之间的关联中发挥作用。我们的研究结果表明,鉴于对照顾者健康的潜在影响,需要特别关注帕金森病患者照顾者护理负担和照顾相关压力的累积,特别是身体压力。需要采取一些解决办法,如照顾者筛查和针对照顾者的护理计划,以更好地支持减轻帕金森病患者照顾者的负担和压力,从而促进他们的整体健康。