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Potential moderators of the intervention effect (caregiver age, gender, level of education, employment status, spiritual beliefs, how long carers had known the patient, caring hours per day, and the number of children living at home) were individually entered in the regression model in order to determine whether positive pre-post changes would emerge at certain levels of the moderator.
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In effect, caregivers may experience declines in their physical, mental, and social health.
In the case of direct effects, caregiver characteristics affect caregivers' QoL irrespective of the caregiving burdens they experience.
An intervention may have no effect on caregiver outcomes yet still affect caregiving activities.
Unadjusted odds ratios also identified these associations, but they tended to underestimate the effects of caregiver burden and positivity on POS agreement.
Furthermore, Hughes 1992 reported a statistically significant negative intervention effect on caregiver morale at six months from enrolment and Greer 1986 found significantly higher caregiver burden over the last weeks of the patient's life in the group receiving the community-based intervention.
In addition, narrative synthesis showed evidence of small but statistically significant beneficial effects of home palliative care services compared to usual care on reducing symptom burden for patients (three trials, two of high quality, and one CBA with 2107 participants) and of no effect on caregiver grief (three RCTs, two of high quality, and one CBA with 2113 caregivers).
For example the importance of self-care as factor in reducing the effect of caregiver stress on general well-being was reported in a study of 46 family caregivers of persons with dementia [ 28].
Evaluating the effect of caregiver interventions is complex because there can be both positive outcomes of caregiving (e.g., role satisfaction, improved relationships) and negative outcomes (e.g., caregiver depression, anxiety, stress, burden).
Occasional findings of negative effects on caregiver morale and burden and of positive effects from reinforcing home palliative care services with a specific component of caregiver support are important.
Here we used mice lacking acid-sensing ion channel 3 (Asic3−/−) to create a hearing deficit to probe the effect of caregiver hearing on maternal care and adolescent social development.
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