ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM.pptx
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1. Caregiving Styles
Mary A Corcoran PhD, OT/L
Professor and Associate Dean
George Washington University
2. Why Study
Caregiving
Styles?
“If you’ve seen one
caregiver, you’ve seen
one caregiver”
3. The Caregiving Style Studies
Spouses (68)
5 years
National Institute on Aging
Adult children (33)
1 year
Virginia
Commonwealth, ARDRAF
4. Mixed Methods Design
• QUAL-quant
• Grounded theory
Focusing on qualitative
analysis today
5. Data
• Qualitative
• Long interview (250+ total
hours)
• Videotapes (33+ total hours)
• Quantitative
• Sociodemographics
• Measures of well-being
6. Qualitative Analytic Approach
Three iterative tasks
Coding Describe what is going on
Categories Identify larger “parts”
Theme Develop a theory of
caregiving style
7. Getting from Codes to Categories
Coding – unlinked descriptions
of data
Categories – arrange codes as
hierarchies
Hierarchies of what?
9. Categories: Elements of Style
Beliefs
What is …?
Meanings
The role signifies …?
Actions
Caregiving gets done by …?
10.
11. Action: Taking Care of Self
Looking at data as a whole, caregivers
take care of self by
Reducing demands of role
Doing something important
Getting healthy
Staying connected
12. Taking Care of Self
No
Has strategies
strategies
Does not Does not
Meets
meet meet
needs
needs needs
13. Three groups
Compare and contrast through
axial coding
Causes
Consequences
Context
Conditions
17. Facilitating Caregiver
Priority
Strategy
Emotional Interaction
Anything that
health, identity of Cooperative
involves self
CR
Needs Emotions
Recognizes but Worries about
doesn’t address ability to provide
own needs best care
18. Directing Caregiver
Priority
Strategy Interaction
Physical health of
Verbal Limited or none
CR
Needs Emotions
Recognized needs Frustrated and
limited to work stressed
19. Balancing Caregiver
Strategy
Priority Environmental Interaction
Maintaining the status quo controls, supervision, repetitive Parallel
activities
Emotions
Needs
Generally satisfied with care
Has help and meets own needs
provision
20. Advocating Caregiver
Interaction
Priority Strategy
Range with
Managing others Vigilance and
purpose of
to support CR advocacy
assessment
Emotions
Needs
Generally satisfied
Has help and
with care
meets own needs
provision
21. Conclusion
• Caregivers may
- demonstrate a mix of styles
- change over time; circumstances
• Understanding priorities of caregiver
regarding self and care recipient is key
22. Caveats
• Styles are a guide, not a prescription
• Theory - Requires further testing
23. Reference
Corcoran, M.A. (2011). Caregiving Styles: A
Cognitive and Behavioral Typology Associated
With Dementia Family Caregiving. The
Gerontologist 51, 4, 463-472.
doi:10.1093/geront/gnr002
Notas do Editor
Using an inductive reasoning process, I wanted to develop a theory about caregiving style that was grounded in the data
End goal is theory of style. What is a style? What are the essential ingredients for something to be a style? Pattern over time, but what else? Used the literature to define style = essential elements. Used these elements as a hierarchy for codes.
If I looked at my participants as individuals (rather than clumping the data together as a whole) I saw there were three possible conditions. BTW, looking at things individually rather than as a block of data is part of what researchers mean when they say they are considering the context (contextualizing, placing in context).How did the cg talk about taking care of themselves? I asked specifically what they did to recharge their batteries and some had strategies and some didn’t …BTW, if I had not asked the batteries question, what would have been the effect on the trustworthiness of my analysis?
(would need to double check the underlying logic of this illustration with author - Priorities lead to formulation of strategies and types of interaction. These affect 1) the way the CR deals with their needs 2) the CR’s emotions.) Facilitative - Seeks to maintain identity of CR (i.e., clothing, former roles)Self-image tied to “good caregiving”
Priority is physical health of CRElaborate regimes of medication, nutrition, or use of supplementsAppearances important (keeps house clean, worries about being embarrassed)