{"id":2552,"date":"2018-01-25T14:12:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T13:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/?p=2552"},"modified":"2018-01-25T14:12:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T13:12:26","slug":"meta-analysis-social-support-and-subjective-burden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/meta-analysis-social-support-and-subjective-burden\/","title":{"rendered":"A meta-analysis that reveals the relationship between social support and the subjective burden in caregivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"section1\" class=\"section toc-section\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Despite the generally accepted belief that social support improves caregiver adjustment in general and subjective burden in particular, the literature shows mixed findings, and a recent review concluded that the predictive strength of caregiver social support in determining caregiver burden is less evident, due to the conceptual diversity of this determinant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The purpose of this review is to analyse the relationship of perceived and received social support with subjective burden among informal caregivers of an adult or older adult.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The most important findings were the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">1) Perceived and received support are not redundant constructs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">2) The relationships between social support and subjective burden depend on whether the social support is measured as perceived or received.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">3) The relationship of perceived social support with subjective burden has a bigger effect size than that of received social support, the relation between received support and subjective burden being clinically irrelevant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">4) Perceived social support may be a good predictor of subjective burden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2567 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/social-support-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/social-support-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/social-support.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The findings broadly support interventions promoting social support in caregivers to prevent or alleviate subjective burden, and specifically, t<strong>o intervene on the promotion of perceived social support more than on the promotion of received social support when preventing or alleviating burden<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #000000;\"><a class=\"m_5151977160474944950author-name\" style=\"color: #000000;\">The full text is available in: Rafael del-Pino-Casado,\u00a0<\/a><a class=\"m_5151977160474944950author-name\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Antonio Fr\u00edas-Osuna,\u00a0<\/a><a class=\"m_5151977160474944950author-name\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Pedro A. Palomino-Moral,\u00a0<\/a><a class=\"m_5151977160474944950author-name\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Mar\u00eda Ruzafa-Mart\u00ednez,\u00a0<\/a><a class=\"m_5151977160474944950author-name\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Antonio J. Ramos-Morcillo. <\/a><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0189874\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Social support and subjective burden in caregivers of adults and older adults: A meta-analysis.<\/span><\/a> PLoS One. 2018;13(1):e0189874.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the generally accepted belief that social support improves caregiver adjustment in general and subjective burden in particular, the literature shows mixed findings, and a recent review concluded that the predictive strength of caregiver social &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"A meta-analysis that reveals the relationship between social support and the subjective burden in caregivers\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/meta-analysis-social-support-and-subjective-burden\/#more-2552\" aria-label=\"Read more about A meta-analysis that reveals the relationship between social support and the subjective burden in caregivers\">Leer m\u00e1s &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,166,2],"tags":[167],"class_list":["post-2552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articulo-cientifico","category-cuidadoras-familiares-en","category-news","tag-cuidadoras-familiares-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}