Social inequalities in the burden of care: a dyadic analysis in the caregiving partners of persons with a physical disability

• Main Authors: Hannah Tough (Author), Martin W. G. Brinkhof (Author), Johannes Siegrist (Author), Christine Fekete (Author), for the SwiSCI Study Group (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Socioeconomic position (SEP) is an important contextual factor in the Stress Process Model of caregiving. However, the basic assumption that low SEP is associated with greater caregiver burden has so far lacked empirical support. The objective of this study was to investigate soc...