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Mary L McHugh

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PubMed2004

The role of caregiver gender and caregiver burden in nursing home placements for elderly Taiwanese survivors of stroke.

The role of caregiver gender in caregiver burden and the association between the level of caregiver burden and institutionalization of elderly stroke survivors in Taiwan were explored using a correlational, descriptive design. The convenience sample was composed of 78 male and 69 female primary caregivers of stroke survivors. Simple multiple regression and t tests were used to test the research questions. Women perceived caregiving as more burdensome than men did. Caregiver burden was most strongly associated with the characteristics of the care recipients and with institutionalization. The proposed model explained 45% and 28% of the variance in caregiver burden for male and female caregivers, respectively. It is recommended that the professional nursing role in Taiwan be expanded to include postdischarge care, respite, and home-care services to allow families to keep their elderly at home as long as possible and to provide culturally sensitive care to families that might be traumatized by having to violate ethnic Chinese cultural norms by institutionalizing family members.

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Descriptive statistics, Part II: Most commonly used descriptive statistics.

Descriptive measures can reveal a great deal of information about any variable of interest, whether the data be clinical, administrative, educational, or research data. To make best use of a descriptive statistic, it is important to know what levels of measurement should be used with the statistic, and what information the statistic can provide. To find out about the most typical case, measures of central tendency are appropriate. To discover whether the variable has a normal distribution, measures of shape should be applied. And to discover the variability about the mean of the variable, measures of dispersion should be used. Finally, percentiles and quartiles are useful for describing the placement of a single case in a population.

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