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Multicenter Study
. 2021 Aug 4:16:2245-2255.
doi: 10.2147/COPD.S311772. eCollection 2021.

Impact of Caregiving Burden on Quality of Life of Caregivers of COPD Patients: The Chain Mediating Role of Social Support and Negative Coping Styles

Mo Yi  1 , Di Jiang  2 , Yuanmin Jia  1 , Wei Xu  3 , Haixia Wang  1 , Yizhang Li  1 , Zeyi Zhang  1 , Jingjing Wang  1 , Ou Chen  1
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Multicenter Study

Impact of Caregiving Burden on Quality of Life of Caregivers of COPD Patients: The Chain Mediating Role of Social Support and Negative Coping Styles

Mo Yi et al. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis. .

Abstract

Purpose: Caregivers of COPD patients experience various caregiving burden, which is related to their quality of life. We aimed to explicitly explore whether social support and negative coping styles play the chain mediating roles in the relationship between the caregiving burden of caregivers of COPD patients and their health-related quality of life.

Methods: We conducted a multicenter cross-sectional survey in four hospitals using a convenience sample. Participants who met the inclusion criteria completed five relevant scales, including a sociodemographic scale. One-way ANOVA and Pearson's method were used to analyze the data accordingly, and chain mediated effect values were estimated by bootstrap method to determine whether the model holds.

Results: Among the 201 caregivers who participated in this study, the mean age was 55.94 years, most of them were female (61.2%), the mean caregiving burden score was 52.39 ± 14.65, and the quality of life score was 37.97 ± 3.55. Among them, age, gender, education, relationship with the patient, and the number of chronic diseases were the main factors affecting the quality of life score of the caregivers. According to Pearson results, there was a negative correlation between quality of life and caregiving burden, and negative coping styles. The model result showed that caregiving burden could directly and negatively predict quality of life, and also predict quality of life through the chain mediation of social support and negative coping styles.

Conclusion: In China, caregivers of patients with COPD experience severe levels of caregiving burden and low quality of life. The combination of adequate perceived social support and lower negative coping can be effective in alleviating caregiving burden and improving their quality of life. Therefore, healthcare professionals should provide targeted guidance to caregivers with the help of social support and interventions that regulate negative coping styles.

Keywords: COPD; caregiving burden; cross-sectional study; negative coping styles; quality of life; social support.

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Conflict of interest statement

This paper has not been published elsewhere in whole or in part. All authors report no conflicts of interest for this work.

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The role of social support and negative coping as chain mediators in the relationship between caregiving burden and quality of life with standardized Beta.
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