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

dc.contributor.authorCheezum, Rebecca R.
dc.contributor.authorSampson, Natalie R.
dc.contributor.authorParker, Edith A.
dc.contributor.authorLewis, Toby C.
dc.contributor.authorO’Toole, Ashley
dc.contributor.authorZuniga, Adriana
dc.contributor.authorPatton, Jean
dc.contributor.authorRobbins, Thomas G.
dc.contributor.authorKeirns, Carla C.
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-02T19:21:00Z
dc.date.available2019-01-02T19:21:00Z
dc.date.issued2013-02-24
dc.description.abstractLow-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.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSampson, 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.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10323/6474
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.journalJournal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserveden_US
dc.subjectChildhood asthmaen_US
dc.subjectCaregiversen_US
dc.subjectLife stressen_US
dc.subjectEconomic insecurityen_US
dc.title“I wouldn’t look at it as stress”: Conceptualizations of Caregiver Stress among Low-Income Families of Children with Asthmaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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