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Subjective Perception of Work and the Home Care Workers’ Depression

The care crisis has become a global trend, and the demand for child and elderly care is increasing worldwide. The increasing number of home care workers plays a significant role in meeting this demand in developing countries. The mental health of these workers is associated with the quality of care...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Yu, Zhang, Hanjin, Su, Yihui
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9778985/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36554775
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192416894
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description The care crisis has become a global trend, and the demand for child and elderly care is increasing worldwide. The increasing number of home care workers plays a significant role in meeting this demand in developing countries. The mental health of these workers is associated with the quality of care they provide, which has rarely been studied. This paper explored the factors that affect home care workers’ depression, including their socio-demographic characteristics, working environment, relationship with clients, social support networks, economic burden, and subjective perceptions of discrimination and work. It utilized data from the Shanghai Domestic-work Professionalization Survey (SDPS), which was conducted among four types of in-home caregivers (n = 1000) in Shanghai over a period ranging from May to September 2021. The results show that the variables of marriage, education, self-reported health, relationship with client, economic burden, and subjective perceptions of discrimination and care work are significantly associated with home care workers’ level of depression. However, the variables of gender, age, household registration, and work environmental factors have no significant effect on their level of depression, which differs from the findings of previous studies on care workers in other institutions.
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spelling pubmed-97789852022-12-23 Subjective Perception of Work and the Home Care Workers’ Depression Zhang, Yu Zhang, Hanjin Su, Yihui Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The care crisis has become a global trend, and the demand for child and elderly care is increasing worldwide. The increasing number of home care workers plays a significant role in meeting this demand in developing countries. The mental health of these workers is associated with the quality of care they provide, which has rarely been studied. This paper explored the factors that affect home care workers’ depression, including their socio-demographic characteristics, working environment, relationship with clients, social support networks, economic burden, and subjective perceptions of discrimination and work. It utilized data from the Shanghai Domestic-work Professionalization Survey (SDPS), which was conducted among four types of in-home caregivers (n = 1000) in Shanghai over a period ranging from May to September 2021. The results show that the variables of marriage, education, self-reported health, relationship with client, economic burden, and subjective perceptions of discrimination and care work are significantly associated with home care workers’ level of depression. However, the variables of gender, age, household registration, and work environmental factors have no significant effect on their level of depression, which differs from the findings of previous studies on care workers in other institutions. MDPI 2022-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9778985/ /pubmed/36554775 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192416894 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9778985/
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