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International Journal of
Population Studies Intergenerational relationships and caregiving burden

Figure 1. Literature search and selection process.

studies were not about caregivers of 60+ older adults; (b) 35 whereas other studies did not specifically restrict the health
studies did not focus on intergenerational relationships; (c) status of the care recipients. Regarding the characteristics
eight studies did not focus on caregiver burden, and (d) 10 of caregivers, five studies included only adult children as
studies were not quantitative. The two authors performed caregivers (Aires, Mocellin, Fengler, et al., 2017; Lin, Chen,
the entire selection process independently to ensure and Li, 2012; Liu and Bern-Klug, 2016; Queluz, de Santis,
consistent and complete screenings of all eligible studies. de Fatima Kirchner, et al., 2022; Wu, Liu, Cao, et al., 2021).
Eight studies were finally included in the structured full The kinship between caregivers and care recipients in the
paper review for data extraction and synthesis. The detailed other three studies was more diverse. Lopez-Anuarbe
data extraction results are shown in Table 1. and Kohli (2019) focused on male caregivers, with sons
accounting for approximately 50%, and del-Pino-Casado
3. Results et al. (2014) focused on primary home caregivers of
3.1. Study characteristics older relatives, with children accounting for 60.1%. In
both studies, the researchers conducted separate analyses
We utilized a pre-developed data extraction template to of the children subgroup and thus were included in this
synthesize study characteristics from each study, and a review. Enright et al. (2020) adopted a small sample size;
summary of the eight included studies is found in Table 1. the participant sample included 58 informal caregivers
All eight studies used a cross-sectional design. of persons with dementia, including 20 adult children.
Concerning the characteristics of the care recipients, only This study was also included in this review because of the
Enright et al. (2020) targeted older adults with dementia, relatively large proportion of children in the sample, which

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