ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2025
Race, Social Context, and Caregiving Intensity: Impact on Depressive Symptoms Among Spousal Caregivers.
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Understanding the factors that influence the mental health of family caregivers is essential. This study examines the impact of caregiving intensity, operationalized as caregiving hours, on depressive symptoms, with a focus on racial differences and gender effects. We analyzed data from n = 2112 unique spousal caregivers across 6622 person-years of observations from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) longitudinal data (2008-2014). We estimated the impact of caregiving hours on depressive symptoms, controlling for race, gender, and education. Random intercepts accounted for household-level variance. We assessed interaction terms to evaluate differential effects across racial groups. Depressive symptoms were positively associated with caregiving hours β = 1.74, SE = 0.24, suggesting that increasing caregiving hours is likely to lead to emotional distress. We observed a significant negative interaction effect among African American caregivers (β = -1.25,
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