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Using REGARDS to Study Family Caregiver Well-Being, Health, and Mortality

The REGARDS study has provided a unique opportunity to study both disease-specific (stroke) and broader samples of family caregivers, and to examine the effect of transitions to caregiving over time. Using REGARDS has afforded many advantages over conventional caregiving research, including the avai...

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Autores principales: Roth, David, Haley, William
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7742630/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.3153
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description The REGARDS study has provided a unique opportunity to study both disease-specific (stroke) and broader samples of family caregivers, and to examine the effect of transitions to caregiving over time. Using REGARDS has afforded many advantages over conventional caregiving research, including the availability of biomarker and mortality data, a large sample of non-caregiving controls who can be carefully matched to caregivers, and ability to track onset of caregiving over time. Our findings illustrate the complex nature of caregiving-related effects. While caregiving leads to worse psychological well-being, we have found minimal physical health decreases and reduced mortality rates compared to matched non-caregiving samples. These findings have policy implications and have challenged the conventional beliefs about caregiving based on previous studies of convenience samples. Diverse students and junior faculty members from multiple universities have also gained experience and contributed to high impact papers from this work.
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spelling pubmed-77426302020-12-21 Using REGARDS to Study Family Caregiver Well-Being, Health, and Mortality Roth, David Haley, William Innov Aging Abstracts The REGARDS study has provided a unique opportunity to study both disease-specific (stroke) and broader samples of family caregivers, and to examine the effect of transitions to caregiving over time. Using REGARDS has afforded many advantages over conventional caregiving research, including the availability of biomarker and mortality data, a large sample of non-caregiving controls who can be carefully matched to caregivers, and ability to track onset of caregiving over time. Our findings illustrate the complex nature of caregiving-related effects. While caregiving leads to worse psychological well-being, we have found minimal physical health decreases and reduced mortality rates compared to matched non-caregiving samples. These findings have policy implications and have challenged the conventional beliefs about caregiving based on previous studies of convenience samples. Diverse students and junior faculty members from multiple universities have also gained experience and contributed to high impact papers from this work. Oxford University Press 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7742630/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.3153 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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