The mediating role of resilience between caregiver burden and hope among patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
Meijing Zhou, Mi Wang, Dan Luo and 4 others
PMID 39189092WHAT IT FOUND
Family caregivers of people with inflammatory bowel disease who felt more burdened reported lower hope.
Resilience was linked to both burden and hope. This survey shows links, not that resilience training works.
Key findings
0148.5% of caregivers reported mild to severe burden.
02Caregiver burden was negatively associated with hope.
03Resilience partially mediated the relationship between caregiver burden and hope.
STILL TO COME
How it was doneWhat they foundWhat it means for RNs
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What it does not show
The study measured caregivers at one time point, so it cannot show that burden causes lower hope or that resilience changes hope. It used convenience sampling from two tertiary hospitals in a single city, so the results may not apply to other caregivers or health systems. Caregiver burden, resilience and hope were self-reported, except for patient disease activity, so recall or reporting bias is possible. 80.0% of the patients had active disease, which may make the findings unstable despite controlling for disease activity. No intervention was tested.
Declared interests
No funding was reported and the authors declared no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that resilience training will reduce caregiver burden or raise hope. This was a one-time survey of unpaid family caregivers; it found associations and a mediation analysis, but it did not test any intervention.