# CAREGIVING IMPACT--DURATION AND RELATIONSHIP EFFECTS

> **NIH NIH R01** · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · 1993 · $191,907

## Abstract

While past research has conceptualized caregiving as a static phenomenon,
it is a dynamic process with differential impacts depending on the
duration of caregiving and the generational relationship between
caregiver and care recipient.  The proposed longitudinal study examines
caregiving in the context of the developmental consequences of
nonnormative events, of which caregiving is an example.  We will
investigate the caregiving experiences and the impact of caregiving on
the subsequent development of adult daughters and wives of older persons
over a three year period.  Both the effect of generational relationship
and duration of caregiving on the well-being of older women will be
examined using a probability sample consisting of 400 caregivers and 200
women on the same age who have no caregiving responsibility.

Five research questions are addressed: 1) How does duration of caregiving
moderate the impact of caregiving? 2) How does the generational
relationship between the caregiver and the care recipient moderate the
impact of caregiving? 3) What are the differences between caregivers and
noncaregivers in changes in the dependent variables during the 36 month
study period? 4) What are the impacts of changes in psychological
resources, formal and informal support networks, other caregiving
responsibilities, employment status, and level of care recipient's
dependency on changes in the caregiver's well-being? and 5) What factors
are predictive of mortality and changes in the residential arrangements
of the care recipient across and within study groups?

Specific hypotheses regarding each of these research questions are
examined using three data analytic strategies: MANOVA with repeated
measures to assess differences in group means, interaction effects and
trends in group means over time; 2) structural equation modelling with
LISREL to estimate stability over time in the dependent measures, and the
factors that predict change in the prospective models; and 3) event
history analysis to model change in residential status of the care
recipient over the course of the study.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 3121229
- **Project number:** 1R01AG009388-01A2
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
- **SAM.gov UEI:** LCLSJAGTNZQ7
- **Principal Investigator:** MARSHA RUTH MAILICK
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 1993
- **Award amount:** $191,907
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 1993-03-01 → 1998-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3121229

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 3121229, CAREGIVING IMPACT--DURATION AND RELATIONSHIP EFFECTS (1R01AG009388-01A2). Retrieved via MORVS 2026-10-25 from https://api.morvs.ai/grant/nih/3121229. Licensed CC0.

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