Exploring Indicators of Engagement in Online Learning as Applied to Adolescent Health Prevention: A Pilot Study of REAL media.

Engagement is central to the effectiveness of online health messages and the related educational programs that aim to deliver these messages to the intended audience (Li, Won, Yang et al. 2019: Lin, Hung, Kinshuk et al. 2019).

Informal Caregiver Burden, Benefits, and Older Adult Mortality: A Survival Analysis.

Objective: Informal caregivers are crucial to maintaining older adults' health, but few studies examine how caregiving receipt is associated with older person longevity. In a nationally representative sample, we prospectively explore whether and how having an informal caregiver is associated with older adult overall mortality, and how caregivers' burden and benefits perceptions relate to care recipient mortality.

Methods: We match six National Health and Aging Trends Study waves (2011-2016) with 2011 National Study of Caregiving data, conducting survival analysis on 7,369 older adults and 1,327 older adult-informal caregiver dyads.

Do Caregiver Experiences Shape End-of-Life Care Perceptions? Burden, Benefits, and Care Quality Assessment.

Context: Researchers, hospices, and government agencies administer standardized questionnaires to caregivers for assessing end-of-life care quality. Caregiving experiences may influence end-of-life care quality reports, which have implications for caregiver outcomes, and are a clinical and policy priority.

Objectives: This study aims to determine whether and how caregivers' end-of-life care assessments depend on their burden and benefit perceptions.

The caregiving dyad: Do caregivers' appraisals of caregiving matter for care recipients' health?

Caregiving experiences matter for caregivers' own wellbeing, but few studies link caregivers' burden and benefit perceptions with recipient outcomes. Following the stress process model, I prospectively explore how caregivers' experiences shape recipients' mental health. I match US National Health and Aging Trends Study and National Study of Caregivers, employing logistic regression on 781 older adult-informal caregiver dyads.

The Burden and Benefits of Caregiving: A Latent Class Analysis.

Background And Objectives: Informal caregiving to older adults is a key part of the U.S. long-term care system.

Social Participation in Later Years: The Role of Driving Mobility.

Objectives: I investigate the role of driving mobility for older adults' formal and informal social participation. I expand the common driving status dichotomy using gradated driving frequency, driving change, and ride receipt to account for the complexity of driving behaviors in later years.

Method: I estimate logistic regression models using the 2011 and 2013 waves of the National Health and Aging Trends Study on a nationally representative sample of 4,359 community-dwelling older adults.