Effects of respite services on fluctuations in caregivers' stress: A pilot study using a daily diaryというタイトルの論文をプレプリントサーバーmedRxivにて公開しました。
場所は以下の通りです。
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.25.24314398v1
https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.25.24314398
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https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.25.24314398v1.full.pdf
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Abe K, Kubota W. Effects of respite services on fluctuations in caregivers' stress: A pilot study using a daily diary. medRxiv [Preprint] 2024.09.25.24314398; doi:10.1101/2024.09.25.24314398
内容は以下の通りです。
Abstract
Objectives: Family caregivers for people with dementia report daily fluctuations in stress levels. Much prior research on caregivers' daily stress fluctuations has used a daily diary method. However, only a few studies have used this method with family caregivers to examine the effects of respite services. This study aimed to use a daily diary method to assess the effects of respite services on stress and depression in family caregivers.
Methods: Participants included 13 family caregivers of persons with dementia using respite services in rural areas of Japan. Participants completed self-administered questionnaires every day for seven days, including the use or non-use of respite services, cognitive and daily living function, depression, and stress appraisal. Generalized linear mixed models with data nested within persons were used for the analysis.
Results: Few significant effects of services were found on caregivers' depression and stress appraisals at the between-person level. However, within-person level analyses using generalized mixed models showed that respite services significantly reduced stress appraisal.
Conclusion: The findings demonstrate the stress-buffering effect of respite service for caregivers and the applicability of a daily diary method to the small sample.
