Young R F, Kahana E
Department of Community Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.
Gerontologist. 1995 Apr;35(2):225-32. doi: 10.1093/geront/35.2.225.
This study examined the effects of race on caregiving outcomes among 180 African American and white American caregiver/care recipient dyads subsequent to a heart attack. Despite significant bivariate associations with caregiver characteristics, the caregiving situation, attitudes toward care provision, and burden, race had no effect on burden or depression when all caregiving context variables were controlled. Thus, caring for an ailing elder evoked more race similarities than differences. This suggests that some previously established models of cultural and racial differences in caregiving may need to be reconsidered.
本研究调查了种族对180对非裔美国人和白人美国人的照顾者/受照顾者二元组在心脏病发作后的照顾结果的影响。尽管种族与照顾者特征、照顾情况、对提供照顾的态度和负担之间存在显著的双变量关联，但在控制了所有照顾背景变量后，种族对负担或抑郁没有影响。因此，照顾生病的老年人所引发的种族相似性多于差异性。这表明一些先前建立的关于照顾中文化和种族差异的模型可能需要重新考虑。
