BACKGROUND Training care givers reduces their burden and improves psychosocial outcomes in care givers and patients at one year. However, the cost effectiveness of this approach has not been investigated. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the cost effectiveness of caregiver training by examining health and social care costs, informal care costs, and quality adjusted life years in care givers. DESIGN A ...

BACKGROUND Informal care givers support disabled stroke patients at home but receive little training for the caregiving role. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of training care givers in reducing burden of stroke in patients and their care givers. DESIGN A single, blind, randomised controlled trial. SETTING Stroke rehabilitation unit. SUBJECTS 300 stroke patients and their care gi...

Abstract Previous research was not able to identify an effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on family care-givers' wellbeing due cross-sectional data structures, care-giver-specific samples or non-probability sampling designs. In this article, by drawing longitudinal from a random and representative sample German population aged 40 older, we overcome methodological limitations previous research. We ...

Five studies examined whether the practice of regifting--a social taboo--is as offensive to the original givers as potential regifters assume. Participants who imagined regifting a gift (receivers) thought that the original giver would be more offended than participants who imagined that their gifts were regifted (givers) reported feeling. Specifically, receivers viewed regifting as similar in ...

The present research examines episodes of favor exchange among peer employees. We posit that favor receivers' and favor givers' commitment to their exchange relationships with one another will be accounted for by different factors. As predicted, in 2 different organizational contexts, receivers' commitment to their relationships with givers was found to be more related to their judgments of the...

Information often comes as a mix of good and bad news, prompting the question, "Do you want the good news or the bad news first?" In such cases, news-givers and news-recipients differ in their concerns and considerations, thus creating an obstacle to ideal communication. In three studies, we examined order preferences of news-givers and news-recipients and the consequences of these preferences....

Gift givers balance their goal to please recipients with gifts that match recipients’ preferences against their goal to signal relational closeness with gifts that demonstrate their knowledge of the recipient. Five studies in a gift registry context show that when close (vs. distant) givers receive attribution for the gifts they choose, they are more likely to diverge from the registry to choos...

This article looks at the trade-offs that gift givers and gift receivers make between desirability and feasibility using construal level theory as a framework. Focusing on the asymmetric distance from a gift that exists within giver-receiver dyads, the authors propose that, unlike receivers, givers construe gifts abstractly and therefore weight desirability attributes more than feasibility attr...

objectives: the purpose of this study was to explore the general health status in women as care givers of the elderly people with alzheimer who attending to the iranian association of alzheimer’s disease. methods & materials: in this descriptive –cross sectional study as a introductory stage of a randomized controlled field trial, 150 women were recruited with a consecutive sampling method. the...