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Ability to Care for an Ill Loved One During the First COVID-19 Lockdown: Mediators of Informal Caregivers’ Stress in Europe
Informal caregivers are overlooked, healthcare actors. They are at particular risk of distress and suffer from poor mental health. This study aimed to investigate the perceived stress and modulating factors during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Europe, regardless of the illness that care recipients...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9039127/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35492725 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.852712 |
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author | Monteiro, Shadya Fournier, Margot Favrod, Jérôme Drainville, Anne-Laure Plessis, Léa Freudiger, Sylvie Skuza, Krzysztof Tripalo, Charlene Franck, Nicolas Lebas, Marie-Clotilde Deloyer, Jocelyn Wilquin, Hélène Golay, Philippe Rexhaj, Shyhrete |
author_facet | Monteiro, Shadya Fournier, Margot Favrod, Jérôme Drainville, Anne-Laure Plessis, Léa Freudiger, Sylvie Skuza, Krzysztof Tripalo, Charlene Franck, Nicolas Lebas, Marie-Clotilde Deloyer, Jocelyn Wilquin, Hélène Golay, Philippe Rexhaj, Shyhrete |
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description | Informal caregivers are overlooked, healthcare actors. They are at particular risk of distress and suffer from poor mental health. This study aimed to investigate the perceived stress and modulating factors during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Europe, regardless of the illness that care recipients suffer from. Sociodemographic data, coping resources, and perceived stress level using the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) questionnaire were assessed using a web-based survey in Switzerland, France, and Belgium with 232 informal caregivers. Mediation analyses were used to identify the factors that modulate stress. Higher perceived stress among informal caregivers was associated with a younger age for the care recipient, family relationship with the care recipient, cohabitation, and female sex of the informal caregiver. These associations were partially mediated by the fear of getting ill (age, cohabitation), the conviction that lockdowns had a negative impact on health (age, kinship), and the perceived deterioration of the care recipient’s health (gender). The fear of losing the ability to cope with caregiving tasks due to an illness (COVID-19 and/or other) and the negative impact of the lockdown on care recipients’ health, particularly on the mental health of young care recipients, increased the stress of informal caregivers. Our results emphasize the importance of informal caregiving support to prevent heightened stress in lockdown conditions, regardless of care recipient illness or kinship. |
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spelling | pubmed-90391272022-04-27 Ability to Care for an Ill Loved One During the First COVID-19 Lockdown: Mediators of Informal Caregivers’ Stress in Europe Monteiro, Shadya Fournier, Margot Favrod, Jérôme Drainville, Anne-Laure Plessis, Léa Freudiger, Sylvie Skuza, Krzysztof Tripalo, Charlene Franck, Nicolas Lebas, Marie-Clotilde Deloyer, Jocelyn Wilquin, Hélène Golay, Philippe Rexhaj, Shyhrete Front Psychiatry Psychiatry Informal caregivers are overlooked, healthcare actors. They are at particular risk of distress and suffer from poor mental health. This study aimed to investigate the perceived stress and modulating factors during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Europe, regardless of the illness that care recipients suffer from. Sociodemographic data, coping resources, and perceived stress level using the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) questionnaire were assessed using a web-based survey in Switzerland, France, and Belgium with 232 informal caregivers. Mediation analyses were used to identify the factors that modulate stress. Higher perceived stress among informal caregivers was associated with a younger age for the care recipient, family relationship with the care recipient, cohabitation, and female sex of the informal caregiver. These associations were partially mediated by the fear of getting ill (age, cohabitation), the conviction that lockdowns had a negative impact on health (age, kinship), and the perceived deterioration of the care recipient’s health (gender). The fear of losing the ability to cope with caregiving tasks due to an illness (COVID-19 and/or other) and the negative impact of the lockdown on care recipients’ health, particularly on the mental health of young care recipients, increased the stress of informal caregivers. Our results emphasize the importance of informal caregiving support to prevent heightened stress in lockdown conditions, regardless of care recipient illness or kinship. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9039127/ /pubmed/35492725 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.852712 Text en Copyright © 2022 Monteiro, Fournier, Favrod, Drainville, Plessis, Freudiger, Skuza, Tripalo, Franck, Lebas, Deloyer, Wilquin, Golay and Rexhaj. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychiatry Monteiro, Shadya Fournier, Margot Favrod, Jérôme Drainville, Anne-Laure Plessis, Léa Freudiger, Sylvie Skuza, Krzysztof Tripalo, Charlene Franck, Nicolas Lebas, Marie-Clotilde Deloyer, Jocelyn Wilquin, Hélène Golay, Philippe Rexhaj, Shyhrete Ability to Care for an Ill Loved One During the First COVID-19 Lockdown: Mediators of Informal Caregivers’ Stress in Europe |
title | Ability to Care for an Ill Loved One During the First COVID-19 Lockdown: Mediators of Informal Caregivers’ Stress in Europe |
title_full | Ability to Care for an Ill Loved One During the First COVID-19 Lockdown: Mediators of Informal Caregivers’ Stress in Europe |
title_fullStr | Ability to Care for an Ill Loved One During the First COVID-19 Lockdown: Mediators of Informal Caregivers’ Stress in Europe |
title_full_unstemmed | Ability to Care for an Ill Loved One During the First COVID-19 Lockdown: Mediators of Informal Caregivers’ Stress in Europe |
title_short | Ability to Care for an Ill Loved One During the First COVID-19 Lockdown: Mediators of Informal Caregivers’ Stress in Europe |
title_sort | ability to care for an ill loved one during the first covid-19 lockdown: mediators of informal caregivers’ stress in europe |
topic | Psychiatry |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9039127/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35492725 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.852712 |
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