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The burden of family caregiving in the United States: work productivity, health care resource utilization, and mental health among employed adults

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, December 2017
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Title
The burden of family caregiving in the United States: work productivity, health care resource utilization, and mental health among employed adults
Published in
Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, December 2017
DOI 10.2147/jmdh.s135372
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Markay Hopps, Laura Iadeluca, Margaret McDonald, Geoffrey T Makinson

Abstract

Family caregiving is an increasingly important component of care for patients and the elderly. The aim of this study is to characterize the burden of family caregiving among employed adults. Employed adults (≥18 years) from the 2013 US National Health and Wellness Survey (NHWS) were classified as family caregivers if they reported currently caring for at least one adult relative. Chi-square tests and one-way analyses of variance assessed whether employed caregivers, weighted to the US population, differed from employed non-caregivers on behavioral characteristics, workplace productivity, and health care resource utilization. Eight million workers were family caregivers in the United States, more often female than male (51% vs. 49%, P < 0.05), and 53% were between 40 and 64 years of age. Eighteen percent of caregivers were Hispanic compared with 15% of non-caregivers (P < 0.05). Similar behavioral characteristics between caregivers and non-caregivers included daily alcohol consumption (6% vs. 5%) and lack of vigorous exercise (25% vs. 29%), but caregivers had a higher prevalence of smoking (26% vs. 19%, P < 0.05). Caregivers reported a higher mean percentage of work time missed (8% vs. 4%, P < 0.05) and greater productivity impairment (24% vs. 14%, P < 0.05). Some form of depression was reported by 53% of caregivers compared with 32% of non-caregivers (P < 0.05), and more caregivers had self-reported insomnia than non-caregivers (46% vs. 37%, P < 0.05). The number of self-reported diagnosed comorbidities was higher among caregivers compared with that of non-caregivers (5.0 vs. 3.1, P < 0.05), as was the mean number of outpatient visits in the previous 6 months (4.1 vs. 2.7, P < 0.05). Family caregiving is associated with a multidimensional burden that impacts caregivers and has implications for employers and the health care system. Clinicians and employers need to recognize and understand this burden. Characterization of caregivers as reported in this study can inform development of targeted programs to help mitigate the burden.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 148 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 20 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 12%
Student > Bachelor 13 9%
Researcher 12 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 7%
Other 24 16%
Unknown 51 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 23 16%
Social Sciences 15 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 13 9%
Psychology 11 7%
Unspecified 5 3%
Other 21 14%
Unknown 60 41%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 February 2023.
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#1,364,751
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Outputs from Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
#44
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#32,997
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
#2
of 10 outputs
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