Contents

• Introduction 2
• Review of the article: 'Caring as worrying: the experience of spousal carers’ by Jenny Cheung & Peta Hocking (2004) 3
• Strengths 4
• Weaknesses 5
• Recommendations 7
• Conclusion 7
• References 9

Description

Care in medical sciences is as important as the treatment administered. It is found time and again that effective care of the patient has produced remarkable recovery in the patients health conditions. Several researches have found that effective pre and post operative care in cases of surgeries have helped heal the patient faster. There are also several ethical and moral considerations which need to be taken care of, while caring for an ill person. There are several arguments over whether the care has to be provided strictly in medical and professional ways or with a human touch. The recent studies however, show that caring with empathy to the conditions of the patient and not just as a duty seems to benefit the healing process. However, if the carer is someone close to the patient such as a spouse, it can have additional emotional burden on the carer due to the emotional entanglement with the patient. Worry apart from empathy and willingness to care also plays a major role in the healing process of the patient.
One such study on the role of worry in spousal care of patient with critical illness is that of the author Jenny Cheung by way of the research paper 'Caring as worrying: the experience of spousal carers’. This paper critically reviews the research study by the authors Jenny Young and Peta Hocking (2004) with the help of the scholarly articles in the field. The paper puts the research aim, methods and findings in a nutshell. The paper analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the paper and finally makes recommendations in order to overcome the inherent weaknesses in the study.