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Anxiety among informal hospice caregivers: an exploratory study.
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Palliative & supportive care [Palliat Support Care] 2015 Jun; Vol. 13 (3), pp. 567-73. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 Feb 13. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Objective: This study examined the prevalence of clinically significant anxiety among informal hospice caregivers and identified the characteristics of caregivers who experienced anxiety of this severity.<br />Method: An exploratory secondary data analysis pooled from three separate studies of informal hospice caregivers (N = 433) was conducted. Researchers employed descriptive statistics to calculate anxiety prevalence and utilized logistic regression to model the associations between the covariates (i.e., caregiver characteristics) and anxiety.<br />Results: Overall, 31% of informal hospice caregivers reported moderate or higher levels of anxiety. Caregivers associated with the research site in the Northwest were less likely to be anxious than those in the Southeast [χ2(3, N = 433) = 7.07, p = 0.029], and employed caregivers were less likely to be anxious than unemployed caregivers (OR = 0.56, 95% CI = 0.33, 0.96). The likelihood of being anxious decreased with increasing physical quality of life (OR = 0.77, 95% CI = 0.69, 0.85), and younger female caregivers were more likely to be anxious than male caregivers and older females (OR = 0.95, CI = 0.91, 0.99).<br />Significance of Results: A noteworthy number of informal hospice caregivers experience clinically significant levels of anxiety. Increased efforts to screen and address anxiety in this population are recommended.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1478-9523
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Palliative & supportive care
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 24524662
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478951513001193