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Johansson MF, McKee KJ, Dahlberg L, Summer Meranius M, Williams CL, Marmstål Hammar L. Negative Impact and Positive Value of Caregiving in Spouse Carers of Persons with Dementia in Sweden. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022; 19:ijerph19031788. [PMID: 35162811 PMCID: PMC8835239 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19031788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2022] [Revised: 02/01/2022] [Accepted: 02/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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(1) Background: Spouse carers of persons with dementia (PwD) are particularly vulnerable to negative outcomes of care, yet research rarely focuses on their caregiving situation. This study explores factors associated with the positive value and negative impact of caregiving in spouse carers of PwD in Sweden. (2) Methods: The study was a cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey, with a convenience sample of spouse carers of PwD (n = 163). The questionnaire addressed: care situation, carer stress, health and social well-being, relationship quality and quality of support, and contained measures of positive value and negative impact of caregiving. (3) Results: Hierarchical regression models explained 63.4% variance in positive value and 63.2% variance in negative impact of caregiving. Three variables were significant in the model of positive value: mutuality, change in emotional closeness following dementia and quality of support. Six variables were significant in the model of negative impact: years in relationship, years as carer, behavioural stress, self-rated health, emotional loneliness and change in physical intimacy following dementia. (4) Conclusions: Support to spouse carers of PwD should address the carer–care-recipient relationship quality, although different aspects of the relationship should be addressed if both the positive value of caregiving is to be enhanced and the negative impact reduced.
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Affiliation(s)
- Marcus F. Johansson
- School of Health and Welfare, Dalarna University, 791 88 Falun, Sweden; (K.J.M.); (L.D.); (L.M.H.)
- Correspondence:
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- School of Health and Welfare, Dalarna University, 791 88 Falun, Sweden; (K.J.M.); (L.D.); (L.M.H.)
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- School of Health and Welfare, Dalarna University, 791 88 Falun, Sweden; (K.J.M.); (L.D.); (L.M.H.)
- Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet & Stockholm University, Tomtebodavägen 18A, 171 65 Solna, Sweden
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- Christine E Lynn College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 334 31, USA;
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- School of Health and Welfare, Dalarna University, 791 88 Falun, Sweden; (K.J.M.); (L.D.); (L.M.H.)
- School of Health, Care and Social Welfare, Mälardalen University, 721 23 Västerås, Sweden;
- Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Alfred Nobels Allé 23, 141 52 Huddinge, Sweden
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Vermeir I, Weijters B, De Houwer J, Geuens M, Slabbinck H, Spruyt A, Van Kerckhove A, Van Lippevelde W, De Steur H, Verbeke W. Corrigendum: Environmentally Sustainable Food Consumption: A Review and Research Agenda From a Goal-Directed Perspective. Front Psychol 2020; 11:585387. [PMID: 33192914 PMCID: PMC7609954 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.585387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2020] [Accepted: 09/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01603.].
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Affiliation(s)
- Iris Vermeir
- BE4LIFE, Department of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- BE4LIFE, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- BE4LIFE, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- BE4LIFE, Department of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- BE4LIFE, Department of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- BE4LIFE, Department of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- BE4LIFE, Department of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- BE4LIFE, Department of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- BE4LIFE, Department of Agricultural Economics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- BE4LIFE, Department of Agricultural Economics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Vermeir I, Weijters B, De Houwer J, Geuens M, Slabbinck H, Spruyt A, Van Kerckhove A, Van Lippevelde W, De Steur H, Verbeke W. Environmentally Sustainable Food Consumption: A Review and Research Agenda From a Goal-Directed Perspective. Front Psychol 2020; 11:1603. [PMID: 32754095 PMCID: PMC7381298 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2020] [Accepted: 06/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The challenge of convincing people to change their eating habits toward more environmentally sustainable food consumption (ESFC) patterns is becoming increasingly pressing. Food preferences, choices and eating habits are notoriously hard to change as they are a central aspect of people's lifestyles and their socio-cultural environment. Many people already hold positive attitudes toward sustainable food, but the notable gap between favorable attitudes and actual purchase and consumption of more sustainable food products remains to be bridged. The current work aims to (1) present a comprehensive theoretical framework for future research on ESFC, and (2) highlight behavioral solutions for environmental challenges in the food domain from an interdisciplinary perspective. First, starting from the premise that food consumption is deliberately or unintentionally directed at attaining goals, a goal-directed framework for understanding and influencing ESFC is built. To engage in goal-directed behavior, people typically go through a series of sequential steps. The proposed theoretical framework makes explicit the sequential steps or hurdles that need to be taken for consumers to engage in ESFC. Consumers need to positively value the environment, discern a discrepancy between the desired versus the actual state of the environment, opt for action to reduce the experienced discrepancy, intend to engage in behavior that is expected to bring them closer to the desired end state, and act in accordance with their intention. Second, a critical review of the literature on mechanisms that underlie and explain ESFC (or the lack thereof) in high-income countries is presented and integrated into the goal-directed framework. This contribution thus combines a top-down conceptualization with a bottom-up literature review; it identifies and discusses factors that might hold people back from ESFC and interventions that might promote ESFC; and it reveals knowledge gaps as well as insights on how to encourage both short- and long-term ESFC by confronting extant literature with the theoretical framework. Altogether, the analysis yields a set of 33 future research questions in the interdisciplinary food domain that deserve to be addressed with the aim of fostering ESFC in the short and long term.
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Affiliation(s)
- Iris Vermeir
- BE4LIFE, Department of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- BE4LIFE, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- BE4LIFE, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- BE4LIFE, Department of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- BE4LIFE, Department of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- BE4LIFE, Department of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- BE4LIFE, Department of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- BE4LIFE, Department of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- BE4LIFE, Department of Agricultural Economics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- BE4LIFE, Department of Agricultural Economics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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