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- Title
Can Culture Help Explain the Physical Health Effects of Caregiving Over Time Among African American Caregivers?
- Authors
Dilworth-Anderson, Peggye; Goodwin, Paula Y.; Williams, Sharon Wallace
- Abstract
The purposes of this study were to longitudinally examine the health outcomes of 107 African American caregivers who provided care to their elderly dependent family members and to determine the role of culture in predicting health outcomes. Similar to other studies, we found that combinations of caregiver background characteristics, stressors, and resources at wave 1 had direct effects on African American caregivers' health outcomes at wave 3. Unlike previous studies, where culture was not measured, we found that cultural beliefs and values did help to explain health outcomes for African American caregivers. Specifically, culture justifications for caregiving, baseline psychosocial health, and caregiving mastery predicted wave 3 psychosocial health. Caregiver education, number of morbidities, and physical functioning at wave 1 were associate with physical functioning at wave 3. The findings form this study have implications for future studies, particularly in regard to cultural beliefs and values among African American caregivers.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CAREGIVERS; HOME care services; ELDER care; AFRICAN Americans; HEALTH surveys
- Publication
Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences, 2004, Vol 59, Issue 3, pS138
- ISSN
1079-5014
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/geronb/59.3.S138