TY - JOUR AU - Chaimakham, Kamontip AU - Jintrawet, Usanee AU - Klunklin, Pimpaporn PY - 2022/12/29 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Factors Related to Family Management among Caregivers of Children with Congenital Heart Disease after Cardiac Surgery JF - Journal of Phrapokklao Nursing College, Chanthaburi JA - JPNC VL - 33 IS - 2 SE - Research Report (รายงานการวิจัย) DO - UR - https://he01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/pnc/article/view/258150 SP - 190–203 AB - <p>This descriptive correlational research aimed to examine the relationships among personal factors and social support with family management among caregivers of children with congenital heart disease after cardiac surgery. The samples were 85 caregivers of children with congenital heart disease after cardiac surgery who came for a follow-up visit at the out-patient department of three tertiary hospitals in the Northern and one heart center of the Northeastern, Thailand. The research instruments included the personal information questionnaire, the social support questionnaire with reliability of .85, and the family management questionnaire with reliabilities in the range of .80–.83. Data were collected from May to November, 2020. Statistics used for data analysis included frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Eta correlation, and Pearson’s product moment correlation.</p><p>The research results revealed that caregivers of children with congenital heart disease after cardiac surgery had the total mean score of social support at a high level (<em>M</em> = 128.16, <em>SD</em> = 16.27) and the total mean score of family management at a moderate level (<em>M</em> = 136.85,<em> SD </em>= 12.09). Social support was positively statistically significantly related to family management in the aspect of child’s daily life and the aspect of condition management ability among caregivers of children with congenital heart disease after cardiac surgery (r = .504,<em> p </em>&lt; .001 and r = <em>.</em>514,<em> p &lt;</em> .001, respectively). In addition, social support was negatively statistically significantly related to family management in the aspect of family life difficulty among caregivers of children with congenital heart disease after cardiac surgery (r = -.337,<em> p </em>&lt; .01).</p><p>This research suggests that nurses should provide social support to caregivers of children with congenital heart disease after cardiac surgery. As such, caregivers may have appropriate family management to care for children after cardiac surgery.</p> ER -