Effectiveness program of rehabilitation care forelderly dependents at Mae Sot district, Tak province

Abstract

This quasi-experimental research was to studyone group pretest-posttest design which aimed to study effectiveness program ofcaregiver’s performance of rehabilitation care for elderlydependentsat Mae Sot district, Tak Province. Population in this study consisted of 31 caregivers who have been training elderlycare program within 70 hours which be registered in      Mae Sot district, Tak Province, in fiscal year 2017. This program was developed from all significantly factors at 0.05 level from research study in phrase 1 including, knowledge of elderly’ health problem,education, respectively.The program of caregiver’s performance of rehabilitation care for elderlydependents was developed activity in by applying health perception theory and the concept of self-efficacy and empowerment composed of 5 activities including, step 1: increasing knowledge, attitude and health perception, step 2: home visit by Health teams with care giver, step 3: consulting for care giver, step 4: to support activities for daily living, step 5: empowerment and assessment with in lasted 5 months.The instrument used for data collection was questionnaire and data analyzed to test research hypothesis by Pairedt-test.The result showed that after an experimentation, the factors had mean score increased with statistic significantly such as; caregiver’s performance of rehabilitation care for elderlydependents (p-value=0.001), knowledge (p-value<0.001), attitude (p-value=0.050), health perception (p-value=0.004), enabling factors (p-value<0.001), reinforcing factors (p-value<0.001), respectively.On these finding, care givers should to develop caregiver’s performance continuously will be built confidence for their practicing of rehabilitation care for elderlydependents, and elderly could be activities for daily living.