The impact of formal and informal support on emotional stress among non-co-resident caregivers of persons with dementia

Social Support and Challenges on a Microsystem Level for Children in Government Residential Care in Pattani, Thailand

“…From the result of the study, it is strongly recommended that the support sectors related to children on a microsystem level should be more concerned with providing emotional support, such as encouraging and empowering children, showing a sense of love, and providing a sense of care to the children, since the current finding shows these play a critical role in establishing a positive perception and behaviour of the children once they actually feel lower than other people, and it also increases children's self-esteem, as well as increasing positive participation between children and those they need to live with in and out of residential care, which ultimately fulfils their life. Besides that, previous research (Pears et al, 2012;Greeson et al, 2015;Fuentes-Pelaez et al, 2016;Uyan-Semerci & Erdogan, 2017;Lee et al, 2021) demonstrated that support systems from people around the children at the microsystem level benefitted the children immensely because they had more implications for building self-esteem, such as empowering interaction from child caregivers, officers, or friends at school or community related to the children As a result, it is suggested that, in order to obtain proper support on a microsystem level, people in the community and those directly involved with the children should be more concerned about the sensitive issue of the children's feelings of stigma, as the current study discovered that children placed in government residential care feel lower status than other people. Bullying from school friends is still prevalent in society, making children feel inferior to their peers and reducing their ability to succeed in school.…”

The experiences of caregiving and the coping strategies of informal caregivers of people with major neurocognitive disorders.

“…Some of the emotion-focused coping strategies used include acceptance and positive reframing, in which adverse events are redefined so they can be more manageable for caregivers (Cassidy et al, 2022). The use of these positive coping styles is further associated with family caregivers caring for a person with MNCD in a study by Alnes et al (2021).…”