Assessment of Mental Burden of Family Caregivers of Persons with Health Disabilities in the Czech Republic
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18460%2F20%3A50016791" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18460/20:50016791 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/9/6/95" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/9/6/95</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci9060095" target="_blank" >10.3390/socsci9060095</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Assessment of Mental Burden of Family Caregivers of Persons with Health Disabilities in the Czech Republic
Original language description
The purpose of this study was to analyse the subjective perception of stress burden in family caregivers, especially those caring for disabled and elderly persons. The tool for quantifying the burden was the Meister questionnaire, which describes the basic dimensions of overload in ten items. These were divided into three factors: overload, monotony and the non-specific factor. The research tool was a standardised questionnaire distributed via a snowball method to a group of 484 family caregivers who cared for a person with disability. The findings show that they have to largely rely on the support of social services. Their burden is characterised by the prevalence of the overload factor. The findings also indicate that there is an urgent call among health professionals to identify and treat caregivers’ psychological distress by applying relevant intervention strategies, which could reduce this distress and prevent caregivers’ burnout. Future research should concentrate on the efficacy of intervention strategies which would reduce the overall burden of family caregivers and nurture the family as a whole.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Social sciences
ISSN
2076-0760
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
9
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
"Article number 95"
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85087519554