Physical and Mental Health Effects of Family Caregiving

By Richard Schulz, P. Sherwood. The American Journal of Nursing, 2008

1,334 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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In General Health Professions

1. Richard Schulz
2. J. K. Montez
3. William E. Haley
4. Debra J Umberson
5. Matthijs Kalmijn

In Health

1. J. K. Montez
2. Debra J Umberson
3. Matthijs Kalmijn

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Richard Schulz
2. Debra J Umberson

Citations in the corpus

• Social Relationships and Health: A Flashpoint for Health Policy (2010, background): “Caring for a sick or impaired spouse is associated with increased physical and psychiatric morbidity, impaired immune function, poorer health behavior, and worse health for the provider (Schulz and Sherwood 2008).”
• Family Caregiving for Older Adults (2020, background): “…standardized self-assessment tools such as health-related quality of life; chronic conditions; physical symptoms (e.g., Cornell Medical Index); mortality; and health service use, including clinic visits, physician or nurse practitioner visits, and days in the hospital (Schulz & Sherwood 2008).”
• Informal caregiving and its impact on health: a reappraisal from population-based studies. (2015, background): “There is a large literature that indicates caregivers, as a general group, are more likely to report symptoms of depression and other indicators of psychological distress than noncaregivers (Pinquart & Sörensen, 2003; Roth et al., 2009; Schulz & Sherwood, 2008).”
• Informal Caregiving: A Reappraisal of Effects on Caregivers (2014, neutral): “(Schulz & Sherwood, 2008, p. 26)”