Aging Parents of Children with Serious Mental Illness

患有严重精神疾病儿童的年迈父母

• 批准号: 7268083
• 负责人: ALLAN Victor KAUFMAN
• 金额: $ 13.2万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN TUSCALOOSA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-08-15 至 2009-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7268083
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Adult Children; Age; Age-Years; Aging; Alabama; American; Area; Caregiver Burden; Caregivers; Child; Chronic; Community Mental Health Centers; Complex; Control Groups; County; Data; Dependency; Development; Diagnosis; Disabled Children; Effectiveness of Interventions; Elderly; Exhibits; Family Caregiver; Future; Goals; Home environment; Individual; Intervention; Lead; Life; Measures; Medical center; Methodology; Modeling; Nature; Numbers; Parental Ages; Parents; Participant; Persons; Pilot Projects; Population; Problem Solving; Problem behavior; Protocols documentation; Recruitment Activity; Research; Sampling; Schizophrenia; Services; Social Workers; Source; Staging; Stress; Subgroup; Testing; Time; United States Department of Veterans Affairs; Well in self; age group; caregiving; caucasian American; cooking; design; experience; improved; satisfaction; severe mental illness; skills

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Many adults with serious mental illness (SMI) depend heavily upon aging parents for long-term assistance. Such continuing dependency is often a source of stress and burden for these parents, and may lead them to experience problems with their own emotional well-being and life satisfaction. This proposed pilot study will test a brief (10 session), multi-dimensional problem solving intervention whose goal is to improve the emotional well-being and the life satisfaction of aging parental caregivers of adult children with schizophrenia. The intervention will be delivered in the participants' homes by masters' level social workers using a delayed experimental control design. The intervention protocol will employ a skill building, problem solving intervention model to address identified problems associated with the caregivers' emotional well- being, management of their children's problem behaviors, and concerns associated with planning for their children's future needs. Participation in this study will be limited to aging parental caregivers (60 years of age or older) of adult children (21 years of age or older) diagnosed with schizophrenia. To be eligible for the study, potential participants must exhibit measured decrements in emotional well-being and life satisfaction, and a moderate or higher measured level of caregiver burden. Recruitment of study participants will take place in a 4 county area of west-central Alabama, with the assistance of Veterans Administration Medical Center of Tuscaloosa, area community mental health centers, and area chapters of the National Alliance for the Mentally III. Data obtained from this pilot study will be used to inform the future development of a larger scale, more methodologically rigorous test of the effectiveness of this intervention. This study will test a treatment for older parents of adult children with schizophrenia. The treatment is designed to help these parents increase their life satisfaction and feel better emotionally.

描述（由申请人提供）：许多患有严重精神疾病（SMI）的成年人严重依赖年迈父母的长期援助。这种持续的依赖往往是这些父母的压力和负担的来源，并可能导致他们自己的情绪健康和生活满意度出现问题。这项拟议的试点研究将测试一项简短的（10 次会议）、多维问题解决干预措施，其目标是改善精神分裂症成年儿童的年老父母照顾者的情绪健康和生活满意度。干预措施将由硕士级社会工作者使用延迟实验控制设计在参与者家中进行。干预方案将采用技能培养、问题解决干预模型来解决与照顾者的情绪健康、孩子问题行为的管理以及与孩子未来需求规划相关的担忧相关的已识别问题。参与这项研究的对象仅限于被诊断患有精神分裂症的成年子女（21 岁或以上）的老年父母照顾者（60 岁或以上）。为了有资格参加这项研究，潜在的参与者必须表现出情绪健康和生活满意度的测量下降，以及中等或更高水平的照顾者负担。研究参与者的招募将在阿拉巴马州中西部的 4 个县地区进行，并得到塔斯卡卢萨退伍军人管理局医疗中心、地区社区心理健康中心和国家精神 III 联盟地区分会的协助。从这项试点研究中获得的数据将用于为未来开展更大规模、方法上更严格的干预措施有效性测试提供信息。这项研究将测试对成年精神分裂症儿童的年长父母的治疗方法。该治疗旨在帮助这些父母提高生活满意度并在情感上感觉更好。

项目成果

Helping Aging Parents of Adult Children with Serious Mental Illness.

帮助患有严重精神疾病的成年子女的年迈父母。

• 发表时间: 2010
• 影响因子: 1.6
• 作者: Kaufman, Allan V;Scogin, Forrest;Macneil, Gordon;Leeper, James;Wimberly, Joshua
• 通讯作者: Wimberly, Joshua