The Effects of Self-Efficacy Promotion Program of Caregivers for Prevention Fall of Patient with Parkinson’s Disease

Abstract

The research aimed to examine the effects of self-efficacy promotion program of caregivers for prevention fall of patient with Parkinson’s disease. Thirty outpatient samples were Parkinson’s disease caregivers who visited Parkinson clinic at the Chulalongkorn Center of Excellence for Parkinson’s Disease & Related Disorder of King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital. The samples were devided into 2 groups, which were fifteen persons on the experimental group and fifteen persons on the control group who received regular nursing care. Data were collected by using a self-efficacy of Parkinson’s disease caregiver’s questionnaire, which had Cronbach’s alpha at 0.98. Knowledge of caregivers in preventing falls was also applied as an instrument which had Kuder-Richardson (KR-20) at 0.96.

The research results found that before experiment, the experimental group who attended the training program and the control group, who received regular nursing care had no different on self-efficacy and knowledge on preventing fall in Parkinson’s disease. After experiment, the experimental group and control group had perceived self-efficacy and knowledge of the caregivers to prevent fall of patient with Parkinson’s disease had significantly different. Suggestion: the effects of self-efficacy promotion program of caregivers for prevention fall of patient with Parkinson’s disease can improve self-efficacy and knowledge for the Parkinson’s patient caregivers.