Relationship Among Mindfulness, Spiritual Well-being, Acceptance, and Psychological Distress in Family Caregiver of Chronic non-Communicable Disease Patients (NCDS)
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Objective: To investigate the relation among mindfulness, spiritual wellbeing, and acceptance and psychological distress in family caregiver of chronic Non-Communicable Disease (NCDs) patients.
Materials and methods: This was a cross-sectional study, which was carried out from May to August 2020. Participants were 130 family caregivers of chronic Non-Communicable Disease (NCDs) patients living in Thailand and were selected by convenience sampling. Instruments were (1) Freiburg mindfulness inventory (2) the acceptance and action questionnaire (3) spiritual wellbeing questionnaire. (4) Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS21). Spearman’s product moment correlation and multiple regression analyses were used to analyses the data.
Results: Mindfulness, spiritual well-being and acceptance were negatively correlated with psychological distress (r = -.76) (r = -.60) (r = -.86). Mindfulness, acceptance, and spiritual wellbeing significantly predicted stress and accounted for 75.8 percent of the total variance (R2= .758, p < .01). When considered standard regression coefficient (ß) of each variables, this study found that acceptance has the most influence (ß = -.662, p < .01) for predicting psychological distress while mindfulness (ß = -.150, p < .05) and spiritual wellbeing (ß = -.150, p < .05) have subsequence influence respectively. (ß = -.144, p < .01)
Conclusion: Mindfulness, spiritual well-being and acceptance were negatively correlated with psychological distress. Mindfulness, spiritual well-being and acceptance were significantly predicted of stress.
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บทความหลังผ่านการปรับแก้จากกองบรรณาธิการแล้ว เป็นลิขสิทธ์ของวารสารจิตเวชวิทยาสาร โรงพยาบาลสวนปรุง กรมสุขภาพจิต กระทรวงสาธารณสุข ห้ามเผยแพร่เพื่อประโยชน์ทางการค้าโดยไม่ได้รับอนุญาต แต่อนุญาตให้เผยแพร่บทความดังกล่าวเพื่อประโยชน์ทางการศึกษาแก่ประชาชนทั่วไป ทั้งนี้กองบรรณาธิการไม่จำเป็นต้องเห็นด้วยกับบทความหรือข้อคิดเห็นใดๆ ที่ปรากฏในวารสารสวนปรุง
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