Aims: The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between caregiving burden and pre-death grief, with a specific focus on adult-child caregivers in mainland China. Additionally, the study explored whether coping strategies played a mediating role in this correlation.
Methods: A convenience sample of 320 adult-child caregivers of older parents with dementia from Kunming, mainland China, was recruited for the study. Data were collected using the Chinese version of the Marwit-Meuser Caregiver Grief Inventory-Short Form, the Burden Scale for Family Caregivers, and the Ways of Coping Checklist-Revised.
Results: Results using linear regression and multiple mediation analysis with Hayes' process model indicated that caregiving burden was positively related to pre-death grief and that active coping mediated the relationship between them. In the female group, active coping partially mediated the association between caregiving burden and pre-death grief, but in the male group, this mediating effect did not exist.
Conclusion: The study found evidence supporting the link between caregiving burden and pre-death grief among adult-child caregivers of older parents with dementia in mainland China. Furthermore, the caregiving burden prevented the use of active coping, and this decrease in coping increased the perception of pre-death grief. These associations only existed in the female group.
Implications: This paper presented the importance of active coping skills in the dementia caregiving process.
Impact: The findings of this study emphasize the necessity for health practitioners to provide targeted interventions regarding pre-death grief among dementia caregivers and strengthen caregivers' active coping strategies to reduce their pre-death grief. Community-based and personal care support services should be promoted to alleviate their caregiving burden.
Reporting Method: We have adhered to the transparent reporting of evaluations with quantitative design statements and the corresponding checklist was followed. PATIENT OR PUBLIC CONTRIBUTION: 'No patient or public involvement'.
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Clin Gerontol
August 2024
Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena Fakultat fur Sozial- und Verhaltenswissenschaften, Jena, Germany.
Objectives: Family caregivers of persons with dementia (PwD) experience high levels of distress. We used a randomized-controlled trial to investigate the effects of telephone-based acceptance and commitment therapy (tbACT) for family caregivers.
Methods: Caregivers were randomly allocated to an intervention group (tbACT, = 41) or an untreated control group (CG, = 40).
Palliat Med
March 2024
Psychological Aspects of Cancer, Danish Cancer Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Background: Experiencing the illness and death of a child is a traumatic experience for the parents and the child's siblings. However, knowledge regarding effective grief interventions targeting the whole family is limited, including how to integrate age-appropriate support for siblings.
Aim: We aimed to synthesize the empirical literature regarding grief interventions that target the whole family before and/or after the death of a child.
Death Stud
March 2024
Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, China.
This systematic review examined the role of social environment in pre-death grief experiences of dementia caregivers. Ninety-three Chinese and English articles were included from a comprehensive search of empirical studies using nine databases. Six social environment domains were generated: the person with dementia, dyadic relationship, family members and the wider community, health and social care services, place of care, and social-cultural contexts.
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September 2024
Department of Social Work, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Aims: The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between caregiving burden and pre-death grief, with a specific focus on adult-child caregivers in mainland China. Additionally, the study explored whether coping strategies played a mediating role in this correlation.
Methods: A convenience sample of 320 adult-child caregivers of older parents with dementia from Kunming, mainland China, was recruited for the study.
Gerontol Geriatr Med
June 2023
Cognitive Neurology Institute, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
Pre-death grief in the context of dementia caregiving is a significant risk factor for depression, burden, anxiety, and adjustment difficulties. The Two-Track Model of Dementia Grief (TTM-DG) provides a bifocal perspective addressing the nature of the emotional attachment to a loved one living with cognitive impairment, along with a medico-psychiatric perspective associated with stress, trauma, and change in life. The aims of the present study were to empirically validate the components of the model as to identify salutary and risk factors for maladaptive grief responses.
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