SLEEP CONCORDANCE AMONG CARE DYADS OVER TIME: DOES IT VARY BY CAREGIVING CONTEXTS?
Dexia Kong, Chihua Li, Xiaoling Xiang, Peiyi Lu · 2024
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Dexia Kong and co-authors asked whether the sleep of older care recipients and their family caregivers rises and falls together over time. The team used two linked national studies covering more than twenty-two hundred care pairs, with sleep measured in 2015 and again in 2017. Statistical models separated each person's own sleep continuity from influence flowing between partners.
Each person's later sleep mostly followed their own earlier sleep, and direct partner effects across the two years were weak. But poor recipient sleep in 2015 went with worse caregiver sleep that same year, which then predicted still worse caregiver sleep in 2017. The pattern held for dementia care and pairs living together, but not for other pairs. The authors urge early help for recipients' sleep to protect caregivers.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Dexia Kong, Chihua Li, Xiaoling Xiang, Peiyi Lu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |