Stressors Disclosed on Reddit by Caregivers of Older Adults and Social Support Received: Content Analysis
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Background Informal caregiving of an older adult can be a stressful experience. Anonymous online communities, such as Reddit, provide caregivers with an avenue to disclose their stressors and seek support. However, how caregivers disclose their stressors and the effectiveness of these disclosures in eliciting desired social support remain unclear. Objective Guided by the stress process model and optimal matching theory, this study examined stressors disclosed by informal caregivers on Reddit and the types of social support they received in response. Methods We conducted a quantitative content analysis of posts and comments in 3 subreddits for informal caregivers of older adults. We identified specific stressors disclosed in the posts, analyzed their co-occurrence, and examined the relationship between these stressors and the presence of different types of social support in corresponding comments. Results We collected 737 posts and 3446 comments from 3 subreddits. In the posts, caregivers frequently disclosed care recipients’ functional problems (500/737, 67.8%), caregiving relationship strain (279/737, 37.9%), care recipients’ emotional problems (195/737, 26.4%), and a scarcity of health and social resources (98/737, 13.3%). Care recipients’ functional problems often co-occurred with caregiving relationship strain (χ21=37.2; P<.001) and with care recipients’ emotional problems (χ21=49.0; P<.001). Care recipients’ emotional problems also often co-occurred with caregiving relationship strain (χ21=87.2; P<.001). Caregiving activity issues (odds ratio [OR] 1.75, 95% CI 1.06-2.89; P=.03) and social role conflict (OR 1.64, 95% CI 1.14-2.36; P=.008) were positively associated with informational support received in comments, while care recipients’ functional problems (OR 1.65, 95% CI 1.32-2.08; P<.001) were positively associated with emotional support. Disclosing role overload (OR 1.86, 95% CI 1.03-3.36; P=.04) and social role conflict (OR 1.95, 95% CI 1.27-2.77; P=.002) increased the chance of receiving esteem support, while disclosing social restriction (OR 2.41, 95% CI 1.03-5.60; P=.002) increased the likelihood of receiving network support. In addition, we found that nearly no tangible support (3/3446, 0.09%) was provided in response to self-disclosed stressors. Conclusions Caregivers frequently disclosed primary and secondary stressors as well as stressors from the social environment, with various primary stressors usually co-occurring in Reddit posts. These stressors varied in their effectiveness in eliciting different types of social support in comments. Managers and moderators of online communities, such as subreddits, are expected to encourage caregivers’ sharing of stressors and promote the exchange of social support with their peers. Health professionals and social workers should develop targeted support interventions to meet the needs of informal caregivers of older adults.
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Prédiction distillée sur la base complète
Imitation des enseignantsNi prévalence calibrée, ni vérité terrain. Validation humaine à venir. Apprise à partir de 10 348 étiquettes directes de Codex et de 10 348 étiquettes directes de Gemma. Le mode candidate est l'union des têtes enseignantes seuillées; le consensus est leur intersection. Ces sorties portent le statut machine_predicted_unvalidated et ne sont ni des étiquettes humaines ni des étiquettes directes de modèles de pointe.
Scores Codex et Gemma par catégorie
| Catégorie | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Métarecherche | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens strict) | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens large) | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Bibliométrie | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Études des sciences et des technologies | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Communication savante | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Science ouverte | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Intégrité de la recherche | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Charge utile insuffisante (le modèle a refusé de juger) | 0,001 | 0,000 |
Scores machine (provisoires)
Les deux têtes enseignantes du modèle étudiant, lues sur ce travail. Un score ordonne la base pour la relecture; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie, et le statut de validation accompagne chaque rangée tel quel.
Scores de référence d'un modèle non mature (critères de maturité non atteints, 7 itérations). Un score ordonne; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · tel quel depuis la passe de notation : score_only signifie que le nombre peut ordonner les travaux, et qu'aucune étiquette de catégorie n'en découleClassification
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