title: Influence of Gender and Care Strategy in Family Caregivers´ Strain: A Cross-Sectional Study.
abstract: To analyze the factors that influence the strain on family caregivers of elderly dependent people, relating it to the strategy of care, with a gender perspective.
  
  
  
  Cross-sectional study.
  
  
  
  We interviewed 328 Spanish family caregivers in 2012. Main variable: Caregiver Strain Index (CSI).
  
  
  
  relationship, sex, age, marital status, education level, employment status, socioeconomic status, family and/or institutional supports, time they devote to care, and how long they have been giving care. Data were analyzed using bivariate procedures and multiple linear regression.
  
  
  
  Caregiver profile: women around 60 years old, housewives, with primary education. CSI average: 6.63 ± 3.36. Female sex, kinship being a son or daughter, housewife employment status, service of home care, and the care recipient being female were significantly associated with the subjective strain.
  
  
  
  Caregivers´ strain has a strong gender component: women are more tired, primarily those that practice a partial care strategy.
  
  
  
  Knowing the factors that predict burden, nurses may help caregivers to provide better care. A risk profile for strain and burden: women who practice a partial care strategy; they are adult women and daughters who do not want to give up their professional role and combine it with their duty of caregiving.
authors.affiliation: Professor, Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Podiatry, University of Seville, Seville, Spain. rcasado@us.es.
authors.forename: Rosa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Casado-Mejía
authors.affiliation: Professor, Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Podiatry, University of Seville, Seville, Spain.
authors.forename: Esperanza
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ruiz-Arias
mesh_terms: D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006701:Home Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D012307:Risk Factors; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology*
keywords: Family caregivers; burden; gender