Stress-related coping and its relationship to well-being in nursing assistants and personal care aides in nursing homes and assisted living.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Professional caregivers (nursing assistants and personal care aides) in nursing homes (NH) and assisted living (AL) provide the majority of long-term residential care for persons with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Their work is stressful, but until recently, no measures were available to assess stress in this workforce. Using the new Long-Term Care Cope (LTC COPE) scale, this study evaluates the relationship of coping with staff demographic characteristics and outcomes; the findings can be used to develop and evaluate interventions to improve staff well-being.

Methods

We used a cross-sectional online questionnaire completed by professional caregivers working in a purposive selection of 10 NHs and three AL communities in California, New York, and Nor

SUBMITTER: Sloane PD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11694523 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature