Barbara A Given
Biographic Data
| ID | 2543225 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara A Given |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara A |
| FAMILY NAME | Given |
| SIGNATURE | GIVEN B A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Caregiver Burden and Depressive Symptoms
Health care practitioners should assist caregivers with new care demands stemming from care recipients' mental and functional status to decrease burdens and should monitor caregivers with higher levels of burden for the development of depressive symptoms
Responding to grief
Breast Cancer Screening in Rural Populations
This report describes the development and implementation of a pilot intervention project designed to determine the economic, logistic, behavioral, and attitudinal variables that influence rural women's participation in a community‐based breast cancer screening program. The intervention targeted rural female residents age 40 and older in four Michigan counties. This paper reports on survey responses of women who registered for this pilot breast ca…
Predictors of Use of Secondary Carers Used by the Elderly Following Hospital Discharge
This research examines how caregiver-patient relationship (female spouses, and adult daughters and daughters-in-law) when cross classified with patient coresidence patterns explains the level of secondary carers' involvement among patients with newly added needs for assistance at home following hospital discharge. Among 196 primary caregivers (104 spouses, 92 daughters and daughters-in-law), patient needs were divided into ADL and mobility limita…
Social vulnerability and reactions to caregiving in daughters and daughters‐in‐law caring for disabled aging parents
Variables that have been conceptually linked with social vulnerability--income, educational level, employment, cessation of work to provide care, marital status, social support, and health--were used to predict four categories of reaction to caregiving in 159 daughters and daughters-in-law caring for their disabled aging parents. Social support, income, and health best predicted negative reactions to caregiving; social support alone best predicte…
Caregiver Burden and Depressive Symptoms
Health care practitioners should assist caregivers with new care demands stemming from care recipients' mental and functional status to decrease burdens and should monitor caregivers with higher levels of burden for the development of depressive symptoms
Predictors of Use of Secondary Carers Used by the Elderly Following Hospital Discharge
This research examines how caregiver-patient relationship (female spouses, and adult daughters and daughters-in-law) when cross classified with patient coresidence patterns explains the level of secondary carers' involvement among patients with newly added needs for assistance at home following hospital discharge. Among 196 primary caregivers (104 spouses, 92 daughters and daughters-in-law), patient needs were divided into ADL and mobility limita…
Social vulnerability and reactions to caregiving in daughters and daughters‐in‐law caring for disabled aging parents
Variables that have been conceptually linked with social vulnerability--income, educational level, employment, cessation of work to provide care, marital status, social support, and health--were used to predict four categories of reaction to caregiving in 159 daughters and daughters-in-law caring for their disabled aging parents. Social support, income, and health best predicted negative reactions to caregiving; social support alone best predicte…
Breast Cancer Screening in Rural Populations
This report describes the development and implementation of a pilot intervention project designed to determine the economic, logistic, behavioral, and attitudinal variables that influence rural women's participation in a community‐based breast cancer screening program. The intervention targeted rural female residents age 40 and older in four Michigan counties. This paper reports on survey responses of women who registered for this pilot breast ca…
Responding to grief
Caregiver Burden and Depressive Symptoms
Health care practitioners should assist caregivers with new care demands stemming from care recipients' mental and functional status to decrease burdens and should monitor caregivers with higher levels of burden for the development of depressive symptoms
Gerontology (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (3 works) · Family medicine (2 works) · Nursing (2 works) · Abandonment (legal (1 work) · Activities of daily living (1 work) · Breast cancer (1 work)