The Effect of a Supportive-educative Nursing Program on the Family Caregivers of the Older Adults ongoing Outpatient Chemotherapy
Keywords:
Supportive-educative Nursing Program, Family Caregivers, Self-care Capabilities, Older Adults ongoing Outpatient ChemotherapyAbstract
The purpose of this quasi-experimental research was to examine the effect of the supportive-educative nursing program for family caregivers taking care of the older adult ongoing outpatient chemotherapy at the Chemotherapy Unit, Sakon Nakhon Hospital. Sixty family caregivers were recruited and were randomly assigned into the experimental group and the comparison group, 30 individuals for each group. The experimental group received the 3 sessions of the 4-week program and the comparison group received routine advice of patient care from registered nurses at the chemotherapy unit. Data collection was performed, at pre-test and post-test, using structured interview questionnaire regarding family caregivers’ capabilities of self-care operation for older adult ongoing outpatient chemotherapy. The content validity of the questionnaire (CVI) was .86 and reliabilities was .83. Percentage, mean, standard deviation, Chi-square, Fisher's exact test, Paired t-test, and Independent t-test were employed for data analyses.
Results reveal that the experimental group had greater mean scores of overall capabilities for self-care operation, the universal self-care requisites and the health deviation self-care requisites at post-test than those at the pre-test (p<.001) and greater than those of the comparison group (p<.001). However, the mean score of the developmental self-care requisites reveals no significance.
Therefore, this nursing program could enhance capabilities for self-care operation among the family caregiver of the older adult ongoing outpatient chemotherapy. Nurses at the chemotherapy unit in hospitals and community nurse practitioners could also apply this nursing program to enhance family caregivers’ self-care capabilities on practicing health care for the older adults ongoing outpatient chemotherapy and to provide continuing care in community.
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