Gender identity in informal care: Impact on health in Spanish caregivers

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1506-1520

  Del Río Lozano, María ^a   García Calvente, María Del Mar ^a   Marcos Marcos, Jorge ^b   Entrena Durán, Francisco ^b   Maroto Navarro, Gracia ^a  

^a ANDALUSIAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

caregivers caregiving; gender; health and well being; interviews, semistructured; quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CAREGIVERS / CAREGIVING; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; GENDER; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH AND WELL-BEING; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; INTERVIEWS, SEMISTRUCTURED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPAIN; STEREOTYPING;

CAREGIVERS / CAREGIVING; GENDER; HEALTH AND WELL-BEING; INTERVIEWS, SEMISTRUCTURED; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; CAREGIVERS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPAIN; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 84886828380     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732313507144     Document Type: Article

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