Discussion on Work Pressure Response of Home-Based Long-Term Caregivers in Taichung City

Yi-Qi Lin

《The Proceedings of the 8th AHLA International Conference: Health Literacy in Social Resilience》 2022 (2022/12) Pp. 112-112

https://doi.org/10.30181/AHLA.202210.0073

摘要

INTRODUCTION: In recent years, Taiwan has gradually entered a super-aged society. The government has provided more long-term care benefits for these elderly population. Also, due to the spread of the epidemic, more and more people are applying for home use, avoiding contact with many people. And these caregivers are in contact with many families, and there are many emotional pressures and management needs to be concerned about.
OBJECTIVE: (i) To analyze the stress caused by caregivers in different environments (ii) To analyze different coping strategies to face work stress (iii) To explore the relationship between caregivers' work stress and stress response.
METHODS: This study took the home-based attendants of Taichung City's home-based long-term care institutions as the research objects, adopted the intentional sampling method and conducted a questionnaire survey by using the researcher's self-designed questionnaire, in order to understand the Taichung City home-based attendants' response to work stress and the effect of different demographic variables. The degree of difference between the samples caused by each other, and further explore the degree of correlation between work pressure and pressure strain ; data analysis methods include descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and mean difference test.
RESULTS: The researcher interviewed 73 Taichung caregivers, and 7 of them were invalid questionnaires. The results of the study showed that the proportion of female caregivers in Taichung City was more than that of boys, with 59 females filling in, while only 7 males filling in; Waiters are unmarried and married, accounting for 81.8%, and most of them live with their families, accounting for 84.8%; while home-based waiters in Taichung are significantly related to work stress and stress response.
CONCLUSION: The pressure received by caregivers in the company and in the workplace will affect the way caregivers respond to pressure. Some people like to digest the way they respond to pressure, and some people like to ask others. These may be related to personality. of researchers can study whether there is a correlation between stress and personality traits.