Predicting desire for institutional placement among racially diverse dementia family caregivers: the role of quality of care.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Literature on institutionalization of patients with dementia has not considered the role of caregivers' quality of care, which encompasses caregivers' exemplary care (EC) behaviors and caregivers' potentially harmful behaviors (PHBs) toward care recipients. This study sought to understand the role of quality of care in mediating between caregiving stressors and caregiver desire to institutionalize (DTI) a patient with dementia.

Design and methods

A sample of 612 family caregivers from diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds was drawn from the baseline data of the Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer's Caregiver Heath (REACH II) project. Multiple mediator models were run using Preacher and Hayes asymptotic and resampling strategies to assess direct and indirect effects of care

SUBMITTER: Sun F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3697938 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature