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Toward a Cross-Cultural Understanding of Family Caregiving Burden

Department of Nursing, Kwandong University, #522 Naegok-dong, Kangreung, Kangwon-do, Korea

Isela Luna

College of Nursing, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Sandra L. Cromwell

School of Nursing, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX

Linda R. Phillips

College of Nursing, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Cynthia K. Russell

Health Sciences Center, College of Nursing, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN

Esperanza Torres de Ardon

College of Nursing, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

This article is part of a symposium describing the development of cross-culturally relevant instruments to measure familism, caregiver burden, and quality of elder caregiving among Angloand Mexican American caregivers. This article explores issues involved in measuring caregiving burden. Caregiving burden is thought to adversely affect family caregiving, but the influence of culture on perceptions of burden has not been explored. Because no researchfocuses on caregiving burden among Mexican American caregivers, thefirst step involved reviewing the literaturefor culturalfactors influencing caregiving and using the expertise of the cross-cultural team to identify and compare the meaning of caregiving burden in both groups. Next, two instrumentation studies were done to analyze the items on Poulshock and Deimling's Burden Instrument for comparable meaning and internal consistency within and between groups. The third step involved assessing the validity of Poulshock and Deimling's conceptualization of burden cross-culturally.

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