ครอบครัวกับการดูแลสุขภาพของสมาชิกครอบครัวที่มีภาวะเจ็บป่วย: ข้อเสนอจากการวิจัยเอกสาร Family and Caring for the Ill Members: Suggestions based on a Documentary Research

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The purpose of this documentary research was to propose policy suggestions, which analyze and synthesize on examining the role of families in caring for family members who were sick. The extract forms and matrix tables were developed for screening and analyzing recruited research report conducting in Thailand. PUBMED, CINAHL, and Thai digital direction databases, for both Thai and English language articles, were searched and reviewed for 20 years back, during 

1995 to 2014. Fifty studies were met the criteria to be analyzed. The synthesis findings indicated as followings. Adult members in a family who were a family primary bread winner, a key family health care giver, and also a primary country-driven, but placed their own health conditions as the last priority. They had many risk health behaviors and might lead to chronic diseases in the future. Mostly, a family primary care giver of a severe sick family member was female. There was no other member to take turns and felt psychological distress. It was found that primary health care providers mostly focused on people diseases rather than their family system. In addition, policy recommendations and future research needs were suggested to strengthen the capacity of health care providers.