Twenty-nine percent of adults in the U.S. care for children, and 12% to 24.3% of those adults are multigenerational caregivers who also provide unpaid care for one or more adults. These adults are considered members of the "sandwich generation," which is a term for multigenerational caregivers who provide care, financial support, and emotional support for both their children and parents. The present study characterized the sandwich generation and examined how sandwich generation caregivers differed from caregivers of children, caregivers of parents, and non-caregivers regarding burnout and depression. We found that sandwich generation caregivers and caregivers of parents reported significantly higher levels of informal caregiving burnout than caregivers of children. Compared to non-caregivers, all caregivers reported significantly higher levels of personal burnout. Burnout is higher in sandwich generation caregivers and those who care for parents than burnout among those who care only for children. Future studies should investigate additional variables that affect burnout.

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三明治一代护理人员的倦怠和抑郁：简短报告。

在美国，29% 的成年人照顾儿童，其中 12% 至 24.3% 的成年人是多代照顾者，他们还为一名或多名成年人提供无偿照顾。这些成年人被认为是“三明治一代”的成员，这是一个术语，指的是为孩子和父母提供护理、经济支持和情感支持的多代照顾者。本研究描述了三明治一代的特征，并研究了三明治一代的照顾者与儿童照顾者、父母照顾者和非照顾者在倦怠和抑郁方面有何不同。我们发现，三明治一代的照顾者和父母的照顾者报告的非正式照顾倦怠程度明显高于儿童的照顾者。与非看护者相比，所有看护者的个人倦怠程度均明显更高。三明治一代的照顾者和照顾父母的人的倦怠程度高于只照顾孩子的人。未来的研究应该调查影响倦怠的其他变量。