Date
7-2019
Department
School of Nursing
Degree
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
Chair
Lynne Sanders
Keywords
Caregiver, Stress, Evidence-based Stress Management Interventions
Disciplines
Nursing
Recommended Citation
Ramos, Dexter, "Decreasing Caregiver Stress" (2019). Doctoral Dissertations and Projects. 2131.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/2131
Abstract
Stress is both critical and personal experience and has significant effects on caregivers’ physical, mental, and social well-being. The nature of caregiving and the responsibility to work and serve individuals at their illness conditions are very personal encounters that often result in adverse effects on the health and well-being of caregivers (Frederick, 2016). A decrease in stress experience can lead to the satisfaction of caregiver roles and improvement of patient’s quality of life (Choi, Jisun & Boyle, Diane, 2013; Yada, Nagata, & Inagaki, 2014). This scholarly project determined that evidence-based stress management interventions have decreased the perceived stress in caregivers. The scholarly project identified low levels of stress among research participants, and how evidence-based interventions decreased caregiver stress by increasing their knowledge and awareness of evidence-based stress management interventions. The results of this scholarly project agree with the literature that caregiver stress experience can be decreased through the implementation of evidence-based stress management interventions (Blom, Zarit, Groot Zwaaftink, Cuijpers, & Pot, 2013). It is significant to implement evidence-based stress management interventions to decrease perceived stress among caregivers.
