Family Caregiving during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada: A Mediation Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Family caregiving is a public health issue because of caregivers' significant contribution to the health and social care systems, as well as the substantial impact that giving and receiving care has on the health and quality of life of care receivers and caregivers. While there have been many studies that associate caregivers' care work, financial difficulty, navigation, and other caregiving factors with family caregivers' psychological distress, we were interested not only in the factors related to family caregiver anxiety but also in hypothesizing how those effects occur. In this study, we used Andrew Hayes' PROCESS moderation analysis to explore the link between caregiver frailty, weekly care hours, and perceptions of financial difficulty, social support, and anxiety. In this analysis,

SUBMITTER: Anderson S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9317413 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature