@article{Chuyingsakultip_Koolnaphadol_Inang_2019, place={Chanthaburi, Thailand}, title={The Enhancement of Family Burden Management and Family Happiness of Stroke Patients, Rayong Hospital}, volume={30}, url={https://he01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/pnc/article/view/166800}, abstractNote={<p>This quasi-experimental research aimed to study the enhancement of family burden management and family happiness of stroke patients. The participants consisted of 20 couples of stroke patients and their families receiving services at Rayong Hospitals and were equally divided into an experimental group (n = 10 couples) and a control group (n = 10 couples). The research instruments were composed of the assimilative integrate family counseling program, a recording form of general data, a questionnaire of family burden management with the reliability of .95, and the Thai Happiness Indicator [TMHI-15] with the reliability of .94. The implementation and data collection were conducted from May to September, 2017. Statistics used for data analysis included frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, two-way repeated measures MANOVA, and three-way repeated measures MANOVA with multiple comparisons by Bonferroni.</p> <p>The research results revealed that 1) at post-test and follow-up period, the experimental group had statistically significant higher mean scores of family burden management and family happiness than the pre-test period and the control group (<em>p</em> < .05 and <em>p</em> < .001, respectively); and 2) at follow-up period, the experimental group had statistically significant higher mean scores of family burden management and family happiness than the post-test period (<em>p</em> < .05).</p> <p>This research suggests that health care providers should appropriately apply the assimilative integrate family counseling program for counseling various families, especially the families with chronic disease patients in order to enhance family burden management and family happiness.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Journal of Phrapokklao Nursing College, Chanthaburi}, author={Chuyingsakultip, Nimnual and Koolnaphadol, Pennapha and Inang, Pracha}, year={2019}, month={May}, pages={40–53} }