Family Caregiver Perspectives on Digital Methods to Measure Stress: Qualitative Descriptive Study
In this descriptive qualitative study examining the perspectives of a diverse sample of family caregivers on methods of stress monitoring, we identified 3 themes addressing elements of acceptability, challenges, and opportunities. These provide useful considerations for the use of stress monitoring and implementation of interventions to ameliorate family caregivers' stress of relevance to social care and community teams, researchers, and policy makers. These include providing meaningful situationally specific data resulting in action, that does not contribute to caregiver burden, or inadvertent harm to either the caregiver or the care recipient.
Authors
- Chee Siang Ang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1109-9689)
- Joan Condell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3517-2182)
- Tony Robinson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0623-306X)
- Faith Matcham (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4055-904X)
- John Rooksby (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4719-4389)
- Louise Rose (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1700-3972)
- Alexander J. Casson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1408-1190)
- Sian Saha (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3017-1583)
- Emily Flowers (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6342-1740)
Institutions
- University of Ulster (GB)
- University of Sussex (GB)
- Medway School of Pharmacy (GB)
- King's College London (GB)
- University of Manchester (GB)
- Sussex County Community College (US)
- Northumbria University (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Medical Internet Research
- Published
- 2025-02-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2196/66034
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.54
Funders
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council