Stress, Role Captivity, and the Cessation of Caregiving

Aneshensel, Carol S.; Pearlin, Leonard I.; Schuler, Roberleigh

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“…Keywords compassion fatigue; secondary trauma; vicarious trauma; burnout; posttraumatic stress disorder; stress-process model; scale development During the past 20 years, most studies related to psychosocial stressor exposures have tended to focus on individuals seeking social support and coping assistance when dealing with a negative or traumatic life event (Aneshensel, Pearlin, & Schuler, 1993;Pearlin, 1989;Thoits, 1995). Less often has been a concern for those who give social support (e.g., emotional or informational) or coping assistance (e.g., raising self-esteem or self-efficacy) to others.…”

Section: Method-the Data Come From a Survey Of Social Workers (N = 23mentioning

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The Compassion Fatigue Scale: Its Use With Social Workers Following Urban Disaster

Adams

Figley

Boscarino

2007

Research on Social Work Practice

166

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Objective-The present study has two goals: to assess the difference between secondary trauma and job burnout and to examine the utility of secondary trauma in predicting psychological distress. Method-The data come from a survey of social workers (N = 236) living in New York City 20 months following the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC).Results-Social workers' involvement in WTC recovery efforts is related to secondary trauma but not burnout. Analyses also reveal that both secondary trauma and burnout are related to psychological distress after controlling for other risk factors.Conclusion-This study supports the importance of compassion fatigue as a risk factor for social workers counseling traumatized clients and its association with psychological problems. Keywords compassion fatigue; secondary trauma; vicarious trauma; burnout; posttraumatic stress disorder; stress-process model; scale development During the past 20 years, most studies related to psychosocial stressor exposures have tended to focus on individuals seeking social support and coping assistance when dealing with a negative or traumatic life event (Aneshensel, Pearlin, & Schuler, 1993;Pearlin, 1989;Thoits, 1995). Less often has been a concern for those who give social support (e.g., emotional or informational) or coping assistance (e.g., raising self-esteem or self-efficacy) to others. Although studies have shown that providing social support in these situations can be highly stressful (Ohaeri, 2003;Schulz et al., 1997), relatively little research has focused on formal caregivers (e.g., social workers, therapists, child protection workers, paramedics etc.) and their social support efforts on behalf of traumatized clients (Figley, 1995). Yet, social support and coping assistance are the kinds of care these workers provide in clinical and organizational settings.Past researchers have raised concerns about the mental health status of service professionals who work with AIDS patients (Wade, Beckerman, & Stein, 1996), oncology patients (Simon, Pryce, Roff, & Klemmack, 2006), the elderly (Leon, Altholz, & Dziegielewski, 1999), child welfare clients (Bride, Jones, & MacMaster, in press;Bride, Jones, MacMaster, & Shatila, 2003;Conrad & Kellar-Guenther 2006;Daley, 1979;Dane, 2000;Jayaratne, Chess, & Kunkel, 1986;Rycraft, 1994) Peled-Avram, & Ben-Yizhack, 2004), clients who have committed suicide (Ting, Sanders, Jacobson, & Power, 2006), child sexual abuse victims, and social workers working with a variety of clients (Bride, Robinson, Yegidis, & Figley, 2004;Deighton, Gurris & Taue, 2007). Bride (2007) concludes that social workers engaged in direct clinical practice are likely to be secondarily exposed to traumatic events through their work with traumatized populations, and that a significant minority (15%), likely meet the diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), conclusions that are consistent with an earlier report by the same author (Bride, 2004) and with Siebert's (2004) finding that 19% of s...

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Section: Method-the Data Come From a Survey Of Social Workers (N = 23mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Compassion Fatigue Scale: Its Use With Social Workers Following Urban Disaster

Adams

Figley

Boscarino

2007

Research on Social Work Practice

166

138

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“…Studies have shown that patients sent to nursing homes have a greater risk of dying than patients sent home or to rehabilitation fecilities (Lai et al, 1999) even when health status is conttolled (Aneshensel et al, 1993).…”

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“…Studies have si^gested that kin relationship is not related to likelihood of institutionalisation of the elderly person (Aneshensel et al, 1995;Aneshensel et al, 1993). One explanation for this may be that spouses are more likefy to be expected to take on the role of caregiver than a chDd who is more likely to be self-selected in taking on the caregiving role (Zarit and Edwards, 1996).…”

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Caregiver strain in spouses of stroke patients

Blake¹,

Lincoln²,

Clarke

2003

Clin Rehabil

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Objective: To test the ability of a previously generated logistic regression model to predict caregiver strain from carer mood, negative affectivity and perceived patient functional ability. Design: Postal prospective survey. Setting: Spouses of community-residing patients identified from hospital stroke registers. Method: Spouses were assessed at three and six months after stroke. A previously derived equation was used to make predictions at three months of their level of strain at six months, which were compared with observed outcomes. Measures: Spouses were asked to complete the Caregiver Strain Index (CSI), the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12), the Positive and Negative Affectivity Schedule (PANAS) and to assess patients' independence in activities of daily living on the Extended Activities of Daily Living Scale (EADL). Results: Of 409 stroke patients, 276 had an identifiable co-resident spouse and 116 (42%) completed the measures. At three months after stroke, 39 carers (34%) were under significant strain with 40 (35%) under strain at six months. The predictive model using the GHQ-12, PANAS and EADL at three months was 78% accurate in predicting levels of caregiver strain at six months. Conclusion: Carers at risk of later strain could be identified for further followup. Services to provide emotional support to carers might be effective in the reduction of carer strain.

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“…4,5 Among the numerous psychiatric disorders seen among caregivers, depression was reported to be one of the first symptoms experienced and also the most enduring psychological outcome for this group. 6,7 Anxiety disorders are also commonly seen among the caregivers especially panic attacks, phobias and generalized anxiety disorders. 8 Other psychiatric disorders that may be seen among this group of people include substance and alcohol use disorders and chronic sleep disturbances.…”

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Prevalence and correlates of psychiatric morbidity among caregivers of children and adolescents with neuropsychiatric disorders in Nigeria

Okewole

Ogun

et al. 2011

Afr. J. Psych

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Objective: To screen for psychiatric morbidity among caregivers of patients attending a child and adolescent psychiatric clinic. Method: A total of 155 patients and their caregivers were consecutively recruited over a 1 month period. Sociodemographic and clinical information on patients was obtained either from the hospital records or from the caregiver. Scoring on the Children's Global Assessment Scale (CGAS) was done by clinicians. The caregivers were administered a sociodemographic questionnaire, GHQ-12, Zarit Burden interview, and the Columbia Impairment Scale. Results: Most caregivers observed in this study were females (80.5%) with mothers of the patients accounting for 78% of all the caregivers. A higher percentage of the patients were males (52.8%). Among the caregivers, 39.4% had GHQ Scores of 3 and above. Factors associated with psychiatric morbidity among caregivers include the high level of subjective burden of care, low level of functioning, high degree of impairment and low level of education among patients. Conclusion: The study reveals a high level of psychiatric morbidity among the carers of children and adolescents with mental health problems.

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Stress, Role Captivity, and the Cessation of Caregiving

Cited by 241 publications

References 42 publications

The Compassion Fatigue Scale: Its Use With Social Workers Following Urban Disaster

The Compassion Fatigue Scale: Its Use With Social Workers Following Urban Disaster

Caregiver strain in spouses of stroke patients

Prevalence and correlates of psychiatric morbidity among caregivers of children and adolescents with neuropsychiatric disorders in Nigeria

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