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The effects of parental illness and other ill family members on youth caregiving experiences

Overview of attention for article published in Psychology & Health, February 2015
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Title
The effects of parental illness and other ill family members on youth caregiving experiences
Published in
Psychology & Health, February 2015
DOI 10.1080/08870446.2014.1001390
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Kenneth I. Pakenham, Stephen Cox

Abstract

Informed by a model of family role redistribution derived from the family ecology framework, this study examined differences in two proposed psychological components of role redistribution (youth caregiving experiences and responsibilities) between youth of a parent with illness and their peers from 'healthy' families controlling for the effects of whether a parent is ill or some other family member, illness type and demographics. Based on self-report questionnaire data, four groups of Australian children were derived from a community sample of 2474 youth ('healthy' family, n = 1768; parental illness, n = 336; other family member illness (OFMI), n = 254; both parental and OFMI, n = 116). The presence of any family member with a serious illness is associated with an intensification of youth caregiving experiences relative to peers from healthy families. This risk is elevated if the ill family member is a parent, if more illnesses are present and by certain youth and family demographics, and especially by higher caregiving responsibilities. The presence of a family member, particularly a parent, with a serious medical condition has pervasive increased effects on youth caregiving compared to healthy families, and these effects are not fully accounted for by illness type, demographics or caregiving responsibilities.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 69 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 19%
Student > Bachelor 9 13%
Student > Master 8 12%
Researcher 5 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 4%
Other 7 10%
Unknown 24 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 15 22%
Social Sciences 10 14%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 12%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 10%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 1%
Other 4 6%
Unknown 24 35%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 25 February 2015.
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#5,379,297
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Outputs from Psychology & Health
#403
of 1,166 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#73,777
of 368,301 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psychology & Health
#3
of 23 outputs
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