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“I wouldn’t look at it as stress”: Conceptualizations of Caregiver Stress among Low-Income Families of Children with Asthma

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Cheezum, Rebecca R.
Sampson, Natalie R.
Parker, Edith A.
Lewis, Toby C.
O’Toole, Ashley
Zuniga, Adriana
Patton, Jean
Robbins, Thomas G.
Keirns, Carla C.

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Low-income caregivers of children with asthma experience multiple stressors, likely worsening family health. As part of Community Action Against Asthma’s community-based participatory research partnership, researchers conducted 40 qualitative semi-structured interviews and quantitative surveys with low-income caregivers of children with asthma in Detroit, Michigan. Participants described daily childhood asthma experiences and completed scales including the Peds Quality of Life Family Impact Module and Zarit Burden Caregiver Scale. Quantitative scale findings suggested participants are moderately stressed or affected by their child’s illness. While there was some accordance between qualitative and quantitative findings, qualitative findings additionally captured many relevant life stressors, seemingly overlooked or conflated in scale responses. Many participants described asthma as part of childrearing, rather than as a stressor or burden. Findings encourage improvement of clinical, psychometric assessments used to measure and address stressors that shape health for many families with children with asthma.

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Sampson, N. R., Parker, E. A., Cheezum, R. R., Lewis, T. C., O’Toole, A., Zuniga, A., ... & Keirns, C. C. (2013). “I wouldn’t look at it as stress”: Conceptualizations of Caregiver Stress among Low-Income Families of Children with Asthma. Journal of health care for the poor and underserved, 24(1), 275.

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2013-02-24

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Childhood asthma
Caregivers
Life stress
Economic insecurity

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http://hdl.handle.net/10323/6474

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