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ArticleHealth promotion international2023

The impact of caring for family members with mental illnesses on the caregiver: a scoping review.

Rita Phillips, Mark Durkin, Hilary Engward, Graham Cable, Maria Iancu

Open access · hybridAbstract readScoping Review
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Article in Health promotion international, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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51citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
16.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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Who cites it

51 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 98 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Rita PhillipsRobert Gordon University, Garthdee House, Garthdee Road, Aberdeen AB10 7QB, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4541-2565
Mark DurkinLeeds Trinity University, Leeds, UK.
Hilary EngwardAnglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus, East Rd, Cambridge CB1 1PT, UK.
Graham CableAnglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus, East Rd, Cambridge CB1 1PT, UK.
Maria IancuAnglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus, East Rd, Cambridge CB1 1PT, UK.
Anglia Ruskin University · GBLeeds Trinity University · GBRobert Gordon University · GB

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A large number of multidisciplinary, qualitative and quantitative research suggests that providing care for family members with mental health illnesses can have both positive and negative effects on the carers' wellbeing. However, to date a comprehensive overview and synthesis of literature that compares and contrasts positive and negative effects of family-caregiving on the carer is missing. To address this gap, this scoping review examines the effects of family-caregiving on carers' wellbeing. A Boolean search generated a total of 92 relevant articles that were included in the analysis. The results suggest that, to understand the effects of family-caregiving on the carer's mental and physical wellbeing, it is necessary to take a combination of situational and sociodemographic characteristics into consideration. Elderly, female, spousal-carers and primary-carers may be a group that is at risk of suffering from a lack of positive mental and physical wellbeing as a result of caring. However, the negative effects of caregiving can be balanced by extraversion, social support and religious or spiritual beliefs. Therefore, future interventions that aim to promote family caregivers' wellbeing may need to take personality, particular circumstances as well as cultural and personal beliefs into consideration.

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CaregiversMental DisordersAgedFamilyFemaleHumansMental HealthPersonalityfamily caregivingfamily carersmental healthscoping review

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PMID35472137
PMCPMC10269136
OpenAlexW4224979517

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