Participation Rates and Perceptions of Caregiving Youth Providing Home Health Care

• Published in: Journal of community health Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 326 - 333
• Main Authors: Assaf, Raymen Rammy, auf der Springe, Jennifer, Siskowski, Connie, Ludwig, David A., Mathew, M. Sunil, Belkowitz, Julia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer Science + Business Media 01.04.2016; Springer US; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: After School Programs; Beaches; Caregivers; Caregivers - psychology; Child; Community and Environmental Psychology; Counties; Enrollment; Enrollment Rate; Ethics; Families & family life; Family; Family (Sociological Unit); Female; Florida; Grade 6; Health care delivery; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Home health care; Home Visits; Humans; Intermediate Grades; Male; Medical Schools; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Mental Disorders; National Surveys; ORIGINAL PAPER; Psychometrics; Public Health; Retrospective Studies; School Districts; Schools; State Surveys; Stress, Psychological - psychology; Students; Teenagers; USA, Florida, Palm Beach Cty; USA; Caregiving youth; Young caregiver; Young carers; Family health; Young caregiving prevalence; Unpaid health care delivery

Little is known about the population of caregiving youth in the United States. We sought to describe the participation rates, demographics, and caregiving tasks among sixth graders served by the American Association of Caregiving Youth (AACY) in its Caregiving Youth Project (CYP) in Palm Beach Count...