Abstract

Currently it is estimated that 795,000 persons experience a stroke every year. Of that number up to one-third of survivors will be permanently disabled. It is neither financially feasible nor desirable to place these disabled stroke survivors in long-term care facilities to provide them with the needed assistance if they can be cared for at home. Frequently, the care of these patients is assumed by family members or friends. However, providing care has been shown to be burdensome for some caregivers of stroke patients (Johnson, 1998; Scholte op Reimer, deHaan, Pijnenborg, Limburg, & van den Bos, 1998a; Van Puymbroeck, Hinojosa, & Rittman, 2008). The factors that contribute to development of caregiver burden have been studied by numerous researchers, but findings are inconclusive (Jeng-Ru, Hills, Kaplan, & Johnson, 1998; McCullagh, Brigstocke, Donaldson, & Kalra, 2005; Nelson, Smith, Martinson, Kind, & Luepker, 2008; Vincent, Desrosiers, Landreville, & Demers, 2009). The contribution of the stroke patients' functional and/or cognitive disabilities to the caregiver's burden level is not clear as a result of contradictory findings in the published research. Further, resilience has not been measured in stroke caregivers and evaluated as a possible mediating factor in burden's development. This study sought to clarify those interrelationships. A descriptive correlational design was used in this study.

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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 3682240; ProQuest document ID: 1657426763. The author still retains copyright.

Author Details

Margaret D. Nolan, PhD, RN, CNL

Sigma Membership

Kappa, Tau

Type

Dissertation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Descriptive/Correlational

Research Approach

Quantitative Research

Keywords:

Family Caregivers, Caregiver Well-being, Patient Home Care

Advisor

Jean Toth

Degree

PhD

Degree Grantor

The Catholic University of America

Degree Year

2015

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Review Type

None: Degree-based Submission

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2020-01-15

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