#3: Professional & Family Caregivers PPT

Question 1

Self efficacy

Answer 1

An individual’s beliefs about his or her ability to successfully manage a particular situation to accomplish a goal

Question 2

Self efficacy impacts the individuals…

1. indiv
2. amount
3. whether
4. Vulne…

Answer 2

• individual pursuits
• Amount of effort used to overcome obstacles
• Whether or not, as well as which coping behaviors will be initiated
• Vulnerability to emotional distress and anxiety

Question 3

Factors contributing to burnout: how many

Answer 3

Individual and Situational

Question 4

Situational Factors contributing to burnout:

Answer 4

complex resident care requirements;
co-worker, resident family conflicts,
workload.

Question 5

Individual Factors contributing to burnout:

AGE PCS

Answer 5

age; 
gender; 
experience; 
personality traits (Optimism, Neuroticism); 
Coping Styles, 
Self-Efficacy

Question 6

Definition of “Caregiver”

Answer 6

Anyone who provides assistance to
someone else who is in some degree
incapacitated and needs help

Question 7

Caregiver Identity Theory states interventions to reduce care giver stress should should aim to

Answer 7

reduce the discrepancy between their care activities and their sense of self.

Question 8

CIT strategies

Answer 8

(1) change their behaviors to bring them in line with their identity standards (personal expectations or rules that individuals use to define “appropriate behavior” for themselves)
(2) enhance their self-appraisal,
(3) change their identity standards

Question 9

Formal support services: RESC

Answer 9

Respite, Education, Support Groups, Counselling

Question 10

Barriers to Formal Support Services…

Linked to…

Answer 10

• Lack of awareness of availability
• Lack of perception of need
• Linked to attitudes and beliefs about familial responsibility
  ie: if I am Chinese and think my mother should be cared for by me I am not going to take her to a day program

Question 11

What determines the amount of care provided from a family care giver

Answer 11

closeness of family relationship

ie: spouses offer than children, children offer more than cousins etc

Question 12

Negative Consequences of Caregiving:
1.Infringement on 
2.\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ care recipient
3.
4.\_\_\_\_\_ Health and \_\_\_\_ Outcomes

Answer 12

1. Infringement on Time and Activities
2. Relationship with Care Recipient
3. Physical Health
4. Mental Health and Psychological Outcomes

Question 13

positive consequences of care giving:
CG’s may feel _______ by:

-sense of
-personal _____,
-____________
friendship and company

Answer 13

CG's may feel EMPOWERED by:
sense of mastery, 
personal growth, 
INCREASED family responsibility, 
friendship and company

Question 14

Factors that impact the Caregiving experience

1. __________of the Care Recipient
2. __________
3. _____&_______Relationships
4. ______________

FEGS

Answer 14

1. Functional Level of the Care Recipient
2. Ethnicity
3. .Gender and Familial Relationships
4. .Social Support

Question 15

Underlying premise of CIT

Answer 15

caregiving is a dynamic process of change involving changes in:
care activities,
relationship between the caregiver and recipient,
and the caregiver’s identity.

Question 16

According to CIT the caregivers role

Answer 16

emerges out of a existing role i.e.: spouse to caregiver, child to CG

Question 17

According to CIT as the needs of the care recipient increase over time, the initial familial relationship gives way to a relationship characterized by caregiving, leading to

Answer 17

changes in the caregiver’s identity

Question 18

Why does the caregivers identity begin to change?

Answer 18

care tasks that are required to maintain the health of the patient become inconsistent with the expectations associated with the caregiver’s old role (spouse)
ie: changing the spouses diaper or feeding them

Question 19

How many phases of caregiving are there? What does the last level look like and why?

Answer 19

5- caregiver is returning to initial familial role (spouse) as caregiving is left to professional caregivers in institution.

Question 20

CIT says interventions to reduce caregiver stress should aim to…

Answer 20

reduce the discrepancy between their care activities and their sense of self.

Question 21

Staff Burn out has significant negative impacts on 3 areas:
staff-
patient-
employers-

Answer 21

staff-physical and emotional well-being
patient-quality of care
employers-absenteeism, turnover

Question 22

While interventions cannot change individual predictors of burnout like sex, age and gender, they can target…

Answer 22

self efficacy

Question 23

T/F Individuals with high levels of self-efficacy may perceive the caregiving situation as more controllable and therefore less stressful.

Answer 23

T

Question 24

PCA’s self efficacy was highest in rural or urban areas?

Burn out?

Answer 24

self efficacy? Rural

Burn out? Urban

Question 25

Trait level of optimism was highest for…

Answer 25

RN’s

Question 26

Self efficacy was highest for

Answer 26

RN’s