家族介護者の介護負担感と各種生活行動に対する主観的評価の関連 : 就労している家族介護者への支援制度の検討

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A questionnaire survey was carried out in Okayama, Japan, to examine the relationships between the subjective care burdens of working family caregivers and their subjective evaluation of various life domains (e. g., households, leisure activities, community activities and work). The analyses revealed that the subjective evaluation of all the life domains significantly correlated with subjective care burdens. For example, the subjective evaluation of housework positively correlated with subjective care burdens. This suggested that the obligation to perform housework in addition to nursing, working, and so on, could increase subjective care burdens. Furthermore, based upon the results of the analyses, a support system for working family caregivers was also discussed (e. g., care insurance system and a nursing leave system).