The importance of family relationships with nursing facility staff for family caregiver burden and depression |
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Authors: | Chen Cory K Sabir Myra Zimmerman Sheryl Suitor Jill Pillemer Karl |
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Institution: | Carolina Program in Healthcare and Aging Research, University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA. corychen@email.unc.edu |
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Abstract: | We explore the association between family caregiver depression and the quality of staff-family relationships, and we test burden as a mediator of this relationship. Using structural equation modeling, we used data from a representative sample of 932 family members from 20 nursing homes in Central New York to examine the association between staff-family relationship quality and family caregiver depression. We then tested family caregiver burden as a mediator of the relationship between staff-family relationship quality and family caregiver depression. Staff-family relationship quality, specifically perceived conflict with staff, is significantly associated with family caregiver depression. Further, caregiver burden mediates this relationship. Interventions to improve staff-family relationships may impact family caregiver depression by reducing the stress that family caregivers experience. |
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