Values and Virtues of Grandparents Caring for Their Grandchildren as Protective Factors of Their Health and Psychological Wellbeing
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 110
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Grandparents' quality of life
研究概览
简要总结
Recent social and demographic changes in Western countries have led to a reorganization of the family relationships, such as grandparents-grandchildren bond. The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) shows, on the one hand, that 52% of grandparents are auxiliary caregivers of their grandchildren and, on the other hand, that more than 15% of grandparents regularly care for their grandchildren, being the Spanish percentage the second highest of Europe. Given these figures, it is clear that many grandparents today are playing an important role as socializing agents for their grandchildren.
According to this, grandparents play their socializing rol by passing on their grandchildren skills, experiences, values, beliefs and affection. This bond not only influences positively on grandchildren, but also on grandparents. Caring for grandchildren allows grandparents to resolve the crises of generativity and integrity of self, included in Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development. Moreover, high leves of generativity are related with greater personal growth, one of the dimensions of psychological wellbeing. However, the literature on the socializing rol of grandparents is scarce and has focus on the negative effects of caring for grandchildren. In contrast, recent studies demonstrates that caring for grandchildren has positive effect on grandparents' health and life satisfaction.
Being important to consider the negative consequences of this type of care, is also necessary to develop a new perspective, focus on protective factors of grandparents' psychological wellbeing and quality of life. According to McCubbin's Resilience Model of Family Stress, Adjustment and Adaptation, psychological resources and coping skills could be protective factors, minimizing the impact of caring for grandchildren.
The present project considers two protective factors: personal strengths and emotional competences, variables that are worked on the workshops. By focusing on these aspects, not only an improvement in family relationships (grandparents-parents-grandchildren) is expected, but also an increase in the psychological well-being and quality of life of the participants.
The development of intervention programs aimed at protective factors could be useful for grandparent caregivers, promoting their psychological well-being and quality of life.
详细描述
The study intervention consists of a psychoeducational group workshop oriented to grandparents caring for at least one minor grandchild.
The workshop includes 5 sessions and a follow-up call. The duration of the sessions is about 90 minutes. The modality is online.
The sessions and their objectives are detailed below:
- Session 1: Defining my role as a grandparent.
To frame the topic, get to know the participants and build a good group atmosphere.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Being grandparent of, at least, one minor children or adolescent.
排除标准
- •Suffer from a disease that makes the person unable to understand the questionnaire (e.g., moderate-severe dementia).
结局指标
主要结局
Grandparents' quality of life
时间窗: Through study completion, an average of 2 years
Quality of life will be evaluated with CASP-12. Scale values: 1 (sometimes), 2, 3, 4 (never). Interpretation: the higher the score, the greater the quality of life of the person being assessed.
Grandparents' character strengths
时间窗: Through study completion, an average of 2 years
Character strengths will be evaluated with Psychological Resources Inventory-77 items. Scale values: 0 (totally disagree), 1, 2, 3 (totally agree). Interpretation: the higher the score, the greater the character strengths of the person being assessed.
Grandparents' psychological wellbeing
时间窗: Through study completion, an average of 2 years
Psychological wellbeing will be evaluated with Ryff's Psychological Wellbeing Scale. Scale values: 1 (very inadequate to describe me), 2 (quite inadequate to describe me), 3 (some inadequate to describe me), 4 (some adequate to describe me), 5 (quite adequate to describe me), 6 (very adequate to describe me). Interpretation: the higher the score, the greater the psychological wellbeing of the person being assessed.
Grandparents' involvement and burnout
时间窗: Through study completion, an average of 2 years
Involvement and burnout will be evaluated with Multidimensional Experience of Grandparenthood Set of Inventories. Scale values: 1 (totally disagree), 2, 3, 4, 5 (totally agree). Interpretation: the higher the score, the greater the involvement and burnout of the person being assessed as grandparent.
Grandparents' emotional competences
时间窗: Through study completion, an average of 2 years
Emotional competences will be evaluated with Grandparents Emotional Competency Scale. Scale values: 1 (never), 2 (sometimes), 3 (almost always), 4 (always). Interpretation: the higher the score, the greater the emotional competences of the person being assessed as grandparent.
次要结局
未报告次要终点