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. 2022 Oct 25;17:1549–1567. doi: 10.2147/CIA.S384202

Table 4.

Carer’s Ratings of Personal and Care Recipient’s Health, Importance Placed on Ensuring Personal and Care Recipient’s Health and Wellbeing, Barriers Perceived for Ensuring Personal and Care Recipient’s Health and Wellbeing, and Carer’s Quality of Life Assessment

Older Carers (n=189) n with Data
Rating of personal health n (%)

  • Very good

 29 (15.9) 182

  • Good

 71 (39.0)

  • Average

 62 (34.1)

  • Poor

 18 (9.9)

  • Very poor

 2 (1.1)
Rating of care recipient’s health n (%)

  • Very good

 6 (3.3) 184

  • Good

 30 (16.3)

  • Average

 56 (30.4)

  • Poor

 81 (44.0)

  • Very poor

 11 (6.0)
Importance placed on ensuring care recipient’s health and wellbeing a -mean (SD) 9.6 (0.8) 180
Barriers perceived for ensuring health and wellbeing of care recipient n (%)

  • My own health problems

 64 (35.0) 183

  • Not enough time

 49 (26.8) 183

  • Competing demands (eg, caring for children, partner)

 49 (26.8) 183

  • Financial resources

 39 (21.3) 183

  • None

 35 (19.1) 183

  • Care recipient’s refusal to accept help/non-compliance with medical advice (listed under “Other”)

 12 (6.6) 183

  • Lack of transport

 9 (4.9) 183

  • Care recipient’s disability/medical condition (listed under “Other”)

 7 (3.8) 183

  • Work commitment (listed under “Other”)

 6 (3.3) 183

  • Lack of appropriate support (listed under “Other”)

 5 (2.7) 183

  • Difficulty in accessing support for carers/care recipient (listed under “Other”)

 5 (2.7) 183
Importance placed on ensuring own health and wellbeing a - mean (SD) – range 0–10 8 (2.3) 180
Barriers perceived for ensuring own health and wellbeing n (%)

  • Not enough time

 98 (54.4) 180

  • Competing demands (eg, caring for children, partner)

 65 (36.1) 180

  • My own health problems

 52 (28.9) 180

  • Financial resources

 31 (17.2) 180

  • None

 26 (14.4) 180

  • Carer stress and fatigue (listed under “Other”)

 10 (5.6) 180

  • Lack of transport

 5 (2.8) 180

  • Care recipient’s disability/medical condition (listed under “Other”)

 5 (2.8) 180

  • Work commitment (listed under “Other”)

 3 (1.7) 180
Carer’s quality of life assessmentb

  • DQoL-OC scores-mean (SD), range, IQR

 62 (16.6), 28–103, 49–72 156

Notes: For questions with set response options, including an “other” option, most frequent items listed under “other” have been grouped and added to the list of set responses. These have been denoted as (listed under “other”) in the Table. a11-point visual analogue scale (0–10) where 0=no importance, 10=as much as is necessary. bScore ranges from 22 (minimum) to 110 (maximum). A lower score indicates poorer QoL in older carers.