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    Coping Responses Among Hospice Family Caregivers: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis

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    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2015.07.002
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    Author/Creator
    Washington, Karla T.
    Rakes, Christopher R.
    Date
    2015-07-22
    Type of Work
    7 pages
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    journal articles
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    Karla T. Washington and Christopher R. Rakes, Coping Responses Among Hospice Family Caregivers: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis, BRIEF REPORT| VOLUME 50, ISSUE 6, P867-873 (2015), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2015.07.002
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    Subjects
    Hospice
    caregiver
    family
    stress
    coping
    Abstract
    Context Hospice family caregivers must often cope with significant stressors. Research into the ways caregivers attempt to cope with these stressors has been challenged by pronounced difficulties conceptualizing, measuring, and categorizing caregiver coping. Objectives The purpose of this study was to begin addressing these challenges by determining the structure of coping among hospice family caregivers. Methods Hospice family caregivers (n = 223) residing in the midsouthern U.S. completed the Ways of Coping Questionnaire as part of a cross-sectional survey. To examine the validity of various coping response factor structures, researchers conducted multiple confirmatory factor analyses. Results Although individual coping behaviors were able to be sorted into broader “ways of coping” (i.e., first-order factors), data did not support the further grouping of ways of coping into more general “families of coping” (i.e., second-order factors). Folkman and Lazarus's proposed structure of coping, which comprises eight first-order factors or subscales, better fit the data than the tested alternatives. Conclusion Despite its broad appeal, grouping ways of coping responses into families of coping based on the presupposed nature of the responses (e.g., positive or negative) lacked empirical support for this sample of hospice family caregivers, which suggests that relying on families of coping may oversimplify complex responses from caregivers. Rather than trying to characterize coping responses into broader families, hospice support for caregiver coping strategies may be more effective when based on individualized assessments of each caregiver's ways of coping and the consequences of those coping responses on their quality of life.


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    Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery
    University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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    www.umbc.edu/scholarworks

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