Societal Narratives on Caregivers in Asia
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Dataset
2.2. Measurement of Narratives on Caregivers and Analytic Strategy
3. Results
3.1. Size of Conversations
3.2. Societal Narratives on Caregivers across Six Asian Countries
3.2.1. Asia
3.2.2. Sri Lanka
3.2.3. India
3.2.4. Hong Kong
3.2.5. Philippines
3.2.6. Malaysia
3.2.7. Singapore
4. Discussion
4.1. Sri Lanka
4.2. India
4.3. Hong Kong
4.4. Philippines
4.5. Malaysia
4.6. Singapore
4.7. Pan-Asian Societal Narratives on Caregivers
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Country | Topic | Collocates (Keywords) |
---|---|---|
Sri Lanka | Specialized and institutional care | Organization, provision, physician, diagnosis, knowledge, information, sufficient |
Caregiver burden | Illness, depression, suffer, health, condition, disabling, work, huge, sole | |
Foreign caregivers | Italian, northern, memorandum, profession, nursing, sector, midwifery, dearth, severe | |
Caregiver training and empowerment | Development, facilitate, awareness, raise, better, sole, demand, suffer, target | |
India | Caregiver training and empowerment | Training, support, program, learn, share group, discussion, experience, education, information |
Family caregivers | Family, role, support, care, parent, rule, govern, social, Indian, loved | |
Childcare issues | Infant, child, scheme, patient, abuse, report, help | |
Specialized and institutional care | Hospital, patient, visit, staff, nurse, stay, require | |
Hong Kong | Caregiver burden | Stress, toll, mental, health, relationship, family, psychiatrist, complain, alarming, lack |
Caregiver training and empowerment | Support, organization, volunteer, care, recruit, family, selfless, stress, parent | |
Foreign caregivers | Filipino, foreign, worker, care, center, organizer, resource | |
Philippines | Nurses training and overseas employment | Filipino, abroad, work, nurse, domestic, hire, care, child, job, worker |
Specialized and institutional care | Hospital, professional, worker, patient, care, robot, support | |
Family caregivers | Parent, partner, spouse, relative, mother, designated, learn | |
Malaysia | Caregiver training and empowerment | Support, training, education, course, public, attend, learn, health, care, train |
Specialized and institutional care | Hire, employ, recruit, private, nurse, facilitate, care, qualify, technology, implementation | |
Abusive caregivers | Abuse, report, parent, incident, difficult, trained, increase, more | |
Singapore | Caregiver training and empowerment | Support, training, initiative, share, experience, information, volunteer, train |
Specialized and institutional care | Voluntary, welfare, center, association, resident, support, professional, patient, organize, cost | |
Family caregivers | Parent, compassionate, caring, care, loved, special, elderly | |
Caregiver burden | Burden, stress, challenge, condition, mental, illness, pressure, encourage, support |
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Chicago/Turabian StyleNg, Reuben, and Nicole Indran. 2021. "Societal Narratives on Caregivers in Asia" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 21: 11241. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111241