Relationship between self-care ability and mental resilience of home disabled elders and their caregivers:based on actor-partner interdependence model
MENG Jiale
KONG Yunyi
SHEN Mengyuan
WANG An'ni
Abstract：Objective:To explore the relationship between self-care ability and mental resilience of elderly people with home disability and their caregivers based on the actor-partner interdependence model.Methods:The home-disabled elders and their family caregivers were investigated by using a general demographic data questionnaire,Self-care Ability Assessment Scale(ASAS-R-C),Family Care Ability Scale(FCTI-25),and Mental Resilience Scale(CD-RISC-10).Based on the actor-partner interdependence model,the relationship between the self-care ability and mental resilience of home-disabled elders and their caregivers was analyzed.Results:The total score of the self-care ability of the home-disabled elders was(51.76±7.75),and the total score of caregivers'care ability was(39.70±7.19).The difference was significant(t=—13.722,P＜0.05).The total score of mental resilience of the home-disabled elders was(34.59±7.19),and that of the caregivers was(37.79±5.92),and the difference between them was significant(t=—5.036,P＜0.05).The self-care ability of the home-disabled elders and the care ability of their caregivers were positively correlated with their own and their partner's mental resilience scores(r=0.287-0.571,P＜0.05).The self-care ability of the home disabled elders and their caregivers can positively affect their mental resilience(β=0.528,0.228,P＜0.01),which suggested that the actor effect was significant.The mental resilience of disabled elderly was only affected by their self-care ability(β=0.109,P＞0.05),while the mental resilience of caregivers was affected by both their self-care ability and the self-care ability of disabled elderly(β=0.196,P＜0.05),it suggested that only caregivers'partner-effect was significant.Conclusion:The self-care ability of the elderly with home disability and their caregivers'caring ability interact with their mental resilience.The mental resilience of the elderly is only affected by their caring ability,but the mental resilience of the caregivers is affected by themselves and their partners.Medical staff can regard disabled elderly people and caregivers as a common unit to develop a dual training strategy of caring ability,encourage disabled elderly people to participate more in their care work,start from practical problems in daily life,guide caregivers to better adapt to the role of caregivers,to improve their mental resilience in dealing with long-term care.
Keywords：disabled elderlycaregiversself-care abilitycare abilitymental resilienceactor-partner interdependence model
Publication Date：2024-05-10
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 1550-1555 )