The association between informal caregiving and behavioral risk factors: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to compare informal caregivers/dementia caregivers to non-caregivers regarding alcohol consumption, smoking behavior, obesity, and insufficient physical activity and to identify caregiving-related factors (caregiving intensity, length of caregiving, relationship to the care recipient, and type of caregiving task) which are associated with behavioral risk factors in caregivers/dementia caregivers.

Methods

Using cross-sectional data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we performed the statistical analyses applying logistic regression models and accounted for confounding using the entropy balancing approach.

Results

For caregivers (n = 12,044), the odds of overweight/obesity and smoking were higher (OR = 1.14/1.34, p < 0.05) a

SUBMITTER: Gottschalk S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7426287 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature