Mediators of the effect of the psycho-educational intervention on the psychological well-being of caregiving daughters and daughter in-laws of stroke survivors

Abstract

Background: The objective of this study was to determine whether the randomly assigned intervention is associated with a change in the mediators including threat appraisal, coping behaviors, confidence in knowledge, and preparedness which is in turn accompanied by changes in the caregivers' psychological well-being. Methods:A total of 96 caregiving daughters and daughter in-laws of stroke survivors participated in the study in which 49 cases were randomly assigned to the intervention and 47 to the control group. Data was collected before, immediately after and 12 weeks following interventions. Results:The results of mixed ANOVA revealed a statistically significant difference in psychological well-being score between intervention and control groups. Our findings from the multiple mediator analyses supported the mediating effect for only two of the five hypothesized mediators. The intervention affected psychological well-being indirectly through changes in threat appraisal and perceived preparedness. Multiple mediator models accounted for 34.3% of the variance in the psychological well-being change. Conclusion:The results of this study show the importance of mediators' evaluation in interventional studies of stroke survivor caregivers.

Care burden and the predictive role of spiritual well‐being and religious coping: A cross sectional study among Iranian family caregivers of patients with stroke

“…Positive religious coping was shown to have a higher mean score than negative religious coping in the current study. Similar results were found in the research on Iranian stroke caregivers 44 . Similar findings were seen in other caregivers, such as caregivers of end‐stage cancer patients and moms of children with leukemia 17,45 .…”

“…Similar results were found in the research on Iranian stroke caregivers. 44 Similar findings were seen in other caregivers, such as caregivers of end-stage cancer patients and moms of children with leukemia. 17,45 In the context of Muslim beliefs, particularly among Iranians, falling ill is seen as a sign of divine mercy toward the sick.…”

Evaluation of Home Health Care Intervention for Cerebral Stroke Patients and Their Caregivers in Benha City

“…This finding was congruent with Abdel-Hameed et al, (2010), they reported that the total knowledge score of the caregivers were not significantly relations with their age, sex, marital status, level of education and occupation. Also this finding was supported by Gholamzadeh et al, (2013), who reported that there was no statistically significant relation between socio-demographic characteristics of stroke patient caregivers and their total knowledge score.…”