ReviewQualitative health research2022
How Culture Shapes Informal Caregiver Motivations: A Meta-Ethnographic Review.
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- Navigating Stigma and Support: Realist Evaluation of Support for Migrant Informal Caregivers of Loved Ones with Mental Illness.Community mental health journal · 2026Article
- Advancing the measurement of caregiver impact: Data collection priorities aligned with caregiver, health technology assessment, and policy stakeholders.Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy · 2026Review
- Latino family caregivers: "it's what we do-we take care of our own".The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2026Article
- A Buffering Role of Perceived Social Support and Resilience between Caregiver Burden and Perceived Stress among Informal Caregivers of Dementia Elderly Patients.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- A quantitative study of social identity, social support and perceived stress in online support groups for family caregivers.Journal of health psychology · 2026Article
- Adopting a Societal Perspective in Health-Economic Evaluation: Analysis of Nine HTA Methodological Guidelines on How to Integrate Societal Costs.Journal of market access & health policy · 2026Article
- "The sky on our shoulders": a qualitative study of family caregivers' psychosocial experiences and unmet palliative care needs in advanced lung cancer.BMC palliative care · 2026Article
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- Variation in Health Status Reports: Triangulating Mixed Methods Data to Assess the Health and Wellbeing of Primary Caregivers to Older Rural South Africans.Journal of cross-cultural gerontology · 2025Article
- Factors associated with anxiety, stress, depression and burden among informal caregivers of patients with dementia: a cross-sectional study.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Developing and testing a reflection method for implementation of the informal care guideline in community nursing: Design-based research.Journal of advanced nursing · 2025Article
- The Role of Religion and Culture in Intergenerational Transnational Caregiving: Perspectives from Nigerian Christian Immigrants in Northern BC.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Perceptions related to health, illness, and provision of healthcare among West African migrants residing in Norway: a qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Employment Status, Decision-Making, and Sleep Among Hispanic and Latinx Dementia Family Caregivers: A Secondary Data Analysis.Western journal of nursing research · 2025Article
- A qualitative exploration of cAregiver experienCes Of conseRvatively maNaged kidney failure: the ACORN study.BMC nephrology · 2025Article
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- Dyadic effects of perceived burden and psychological distress on quality of life among Chinese advanced cancer patients and their caregivers.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Burden of Informal Caregivers from an HHC Military Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- The current state and future direction of childcare for cancer patients: a narrative review.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025Review
- A Scoping Review to Contribute to Knowledge About Culturally Adapting Interventions for Latino Family Caregivers of Persons Living With Dementia.Journal of transcultural nursing : official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society · 2025Article
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Abstract
The provision of informal care presents a significant global challenge. To better understand how cultural factors underpin and shape motivations and willingness to provide informal care for adults, an in-depth qualitative synthesis was conducted. Six electronic databases and a wide range of additional sources were searched. Following meta-ethnographic guidelines, 37 qualitative studies were synthesised. Six main concepts were identified: cultural self-identity, which appeared as an overarching explanatory concept; cultural duty and obligations; cultural values; love and emotional attachments; repayment and reciprocity; and competing demands and roles. These concepts informed a model of cultural caregiving motivations, offering an inductive-based exploration of key cultural motivators and highlighting implications for theory development, future research, policy and practice. The model holds implications for the actual exchange of care. Caregiver motivations should not be taken for granted by healthcare or social care professionals involved in assessment and support planning, educational endeavours at a population level may support caregiving, and support should be sensitive to cultural caregiving motivations.
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