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Caregiver burden and coping strategies in caregivers of older patients with stroke

BACKGROUND: Coping strategies play a key role in modulating the physical and psychological burden on caregivers of stroke patients. The present study aimed to determine the relationship between the severity of burden of care and coping strategies amongst a sample of Iranian caregivers of older strok...

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Autores principales: Kazemi, Azar, Azimian, Jalil, Mafi, Maryam, Allen, Kelly-Ann, Motalebi, Seyedeh Ameneh
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8017750/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33794995
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-021-00556-z
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author Kazemi, Azar
Azimian, Jalil
Mafi, Maryam
Allen, Kelly-Ann
Motalebi, Seyedeh Ameneh
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description BACKGROUND: Coping strategies play a key role in modulating the physical and psychological burden on caregivers of stroke patients. The present study aimed to determine the relationship between the severity of burden of care and coping strategies amongst a sample of Iranian caregivers of older stroke patients. It also aimed to examine the differences of coping strategies used by male and female caregivers. METHODS: A total of 110 caregivers of older patients who previously had a stroke participated in this descriptive and cross-sectional study. The Zarit Burden Interview and Lazarus coping strategies questionnaires were used for data collection. Questionnaires were completed by the caregivers, who were selected using convenience sampling. The collected data were analyzed using Pearson's correlations and independent t-tests. RESULTS: The mean age of participants was 32.09 ± 8.70 years. The majority of the caregivers sampled reported mild to moderate (n = 74, 67.3%) burden. The most commonly used coping strategies reported were positive reappraisal and seeking social support. Results of the independent t-test showed that male caregivers used the positive reappraisal strategy (t(110) = 2.76; p = 0.007) and accepting responsibility (t(110) = 2.26; p = 0.026) significantly more than female caregivers. Pearson’s correlations showed a significant positive correlation between caregiver burden and emotional-focused strategies, including escaping (r = 0.245, p = 0.010) and distancing (r = 0.204, p = 0.032). CONCLUSIONS: Caregivers with higher burden of care used more negative coping strategies, such as escape-avoidance and distancing. In order to encourage caregivers to utilize effective coping skills, appropriate programs should be designed and implemented to support caregivers. Use of effective coping skills to reduce the level of personal burden can improve caregiver physical health and psychological well-being. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s40359-021-00556-z.
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spelling pubmed-80177502021-04-02 Caregiver burden and coping strategies in caregivers of older patients with stroke Kazemi, Azar Azimian, Jalil Mafi, Maryam Allen, Kelly-Ann Motalebi, Seyedeh Ameneh BMC Psychol Research Article BACKGROUND: Coping strategies play a key role in modulating the physical and psychological burden on caregivers of stroke patients. The present study aimed to determine the relationship between the severity of burden of care and coping strategies amongst a sample of Iranian caregivers of older stroke patients. It also aimed to examine the differences of coping strategies used by male and female caregivers. METHODS: A total of 110 caregivers of older patients who previously had a stroke participated in this descriptive and cross-sectional study. The Zarit Burden Interview and Lazarus coping strategies questionnaires were used for data collection. Questionnaires were completed by the caregivers, who were selected using convenience sampling. The collected data were analyzed using Pearson's correlations and independent t-tests. RESULTS: The mean age of participants was 32.09 ± 8.70 years. The majority of the caregivers sampled reported mild to moderate (n = 74, 67.3%) burden. The most commonly used coping strategies reported were positive reappraisal and seeking social support. Results of the independent t-test showed that male caregivers used the positive reappraisal strategy (t(110) = 2.76; p = 0.007) and accepting responsibility (t(110) = 2.26; p = 0.026) significantly more than female caregivers. Pearson’s correlations showed a significant positive correlation between caregiver burden and emotional-focused strategies, including escaping (r = 0.245, p = 0.010) and distancing (r = 0.204, p = 0.032). CONCLUSIONS: Caregivers with higher burden of care used more negative coping strategies, such as escape-avoidance and distancing. In order to encourage caregivers to utilize effective coping skills, appropriate programs should be designed and implemented to support caregivers. Use of effective coping skills to reduce the level of personal burden can improve caregiver physical health and psychological well-being. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s40359-021-00556-z. BioMed Central 2021-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8017750/ /pubmed/33794995 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-021-00556-z Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Kazemi, Azar
Azimian, Jalil
Mafi, Maryam
Allen, Kelly-Ann
Motalebi, Seyedeh Ameneh
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title_full_unstemmed Caregiver burden and coping strategies in caregivers of older patients with stroke
title_short Caregiver burden and coping strategies in caregivers of older patients with stroke
title_sort caregiver burden and coping strategies in caregivers of older patients with stroke
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8017750/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33794995
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-021-00556-z
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