A Study of Well-being in Caregivers Caring for Chronically Ill Family Members

et al. 2017

Ann Rehabil Med

ObjectiveTo evaluate effects of caregiver's education program on their satisfaction, as well as patient functional recovery, performed in addition to daily conventional rehabilitation treatment.MethodsThree hundred eleven subjects diagnosed with first-onset stroke and transferred to the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of Inha University Hospital were surveyed. In 2015, caregivers attended an education program for acute and subacute stroke patients. Patients who received an additional rehabilitation therapy were assigned to the experimental group (n=81), whereas the control group (n=100) consisted of transfer cases in 2014 with only conventional treatment. The experimental group was classified by severity using the Korean version of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (K-NIHSS), which was administered to all 181 subjects, in addition to, the Korean version of the Mini Mental Status Examination (K-MMSE), a Modified Barthel Index (K-MBI), and the Berg Balance Scale (K-BBS). Caregiver satisfaction and burden before and after education programs were assessed using the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM), as well as family burden and caregiver burnout scales.ResultsNo significant intergroup difference was observed between initial K-NIHSS, K-MMSE, K-BBS, K-MBI scores, and times from admission to transfer. Those with moderate or severe strokes under the experimental condition showed a more significant improvement than the control group as determined by the K-NIHSS and K-BBS, as well as tendential K-MMSE and K-MBI score increases. Satisfaction was significantly greater for family members and formal caregivers of patients with strokes of moderate severity in the experimental group.ConclusionThe caregiver's education program for stroke subjects had a positive outcome on patients' functional improvement and caregiver satisfaction. The authors believe that the additional rehabilitation therapy with the education program aids patients to achieve functional improvements for an optimal return to social life.

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effect of a Caregiver's Education Program on Stroke Rehabilitation

Hong

et al. 2017

Ann Rehabil Med

“…Family burden prediction was assessed using the Family Burden Scale (a 25‐item, five‐point scale) developed by Suh and Oh () who also verified the construct validity of the scale using the known group methods and determined Cronbach's alpha to be 0·89. In this study, five items of the Family Burden Scale with low CVIs were deleted after the content validation process.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Clinical validity of a relocation stress scale for the families of patients transferred from intensive care units

Lee

Journal of Clinical Nursing

et al. 2015

“…The instrument for measuring the feeling of burden was originally established by Zarit [17], Montgomery, Gonyea, and Hooyman [18], Novak and Guest [19].It was modified and revised by Suh and Oh [20] and this study uses the modified version. The questionnaire for the burden of family members consists of 20 questions which are financial part (2 questions), physical part (3 questions), social part (4 questions), dependent part (4 questions), and emotional part (7 questions).…”

Section: Burdenmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The questionnaire is a five-point scale and the score 5 means maximal feeling of burden. The reliability of the questionnaire is Cronbach's alpha =.86 [20].…”

Section: Burdenmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effect of Rehabilitation Education Program on Family Caregivers of Stroke Patients

Jung¹,

2014

SJPH

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a rehabilitation education Program for family caregivers of stroke patients and to analyze the effects of their depression and burden. Subjects were recruited in R hospital, located in Gyeonggi-do and the period of the study was from April of 2013 to May of 2013. The subject pool was composed of 32 caregivers. Subjects were randomly assigned to either the experimental or nonintervention control conditions with equal number. Control group was taken conventional physical therapy and experimental group was taken conventional physical therapy with rehabilitation education program. Data was analyzed by Chi-square tests, t-tests and paired t-tests using PASW 18.0. This study shows the following results. First, the results showed that the total score of depression decreased significantly after the rehabilitation education program. Second, the results showed that the total score of burden after rehabilitation education Program decreased significantly. The finding indicates that rehabilitation education program for family with CVA patients was effective for reducing depression and burden. In this study, rehabilitation education program showed more effective and significant impact on reducing depression and burden of family caregivers with stroke patients. Especially, the conventional physical therapy with rehabilitation education program is considered as a more effective method than the therapy without rehabilitation education program.