Toward a Cross-Cultural Understanding of Family Caregiving Burden

This article is part of a symposium describing the development of cross-culturally relevant instruments to measure familism, caregiver burden, and quality of elder caregiving among Angloand Mexican American caregivers. This article explores issues involved in measuring caregiving burden. Caregiving...

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Published in:Western journal of nursing research 1996-06, Vol.18 (3), p.252-266
Main Authors: Lim, Young Mi, Luna, Isela, Cromwell, Sandra L., Phillips, Linda R., Russell, Cynthia K., de Ardon, Esperanza Torres
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aged
Caregivers
Carers
Cost of Illness
Cross cultural studies
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Elder care
Elderly people
Europe - ethnology
Families
Families & family life
Family - ethnology
Hispanic Americans
Humans
Mexican American people
Mexican Americans
Models, Nursing
Nursing
Nursing Assessment - standards
Perceptions
Psychological aspects
Reproducibility of Results
Social aspects
Social research
Southwestern United States
Stress
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Summary:This article is part of a symposium describing the development of cross-culturally relevant instruments to measure familism, caregiver burden, and quality of elder caregiving among Angloand Mexican American caregivers. This article explores issues involved in measuring caregiving burden. Caregiving burden is thought to adversely affect family caregiving, but the influence of culture on perceptions of burden has not been explored. Because no researchfocuses on caregiving burden among Mexican American caregivers, thefirst step involved reviewing the literaturefor culturalfactors influencing caregiving and using the expertise of the cross-cultural team to identify and compare the meaning of caregiving burden in both groups. Next, two instrumentation studies were done to analyze the items on Poulshock and Deimling's Burden Instrument for comparable meaning and internal consistency within and between groups. The third step involved assessing the validity of Poulshock and Deimling's conceptualization of burden cross-culturally.
ISSN:0193-9459
1552-8456
DOI:10.1177/019394599601800303