Family caregivers' perceptions and experiences of participating in the learning skills together intervention to build self-efficacy for providing complex care.

Autor: White CL; School of Nursing, UT Health San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229, United States; Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases, UT Health San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229, United States. Electronic address: Whitec2@uthscsa.edu., Barrera A; School of Nursing, UT Health San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229, United States; School of Health Professions, UT Health San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229, United States., Turner S; School of Nursing, UT Health San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229, United States., Glassner A; School of Nursing, UT Health San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229, United States., Brackett J; School of Nursing, UT Health San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229, United States., Rivette S; School of Nursing, UT Health San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229, United States., Meyer K; School of Nursing, UT Health San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229, United States; Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases, UT Health San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229, United States.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.) [Geriatr Nurs] 2022 May-Jun; Vol. 45, pp. 198-204. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 May 06.
DOI: 10.1016/j.gerinurse.2022.04.012
Abstrakt: The purpose of this study was to describe how an intervention to teach family caregivers of persons living with dementia to provide complex care tasks contributes to their self-efficacy. This qualitative study was embedded in a pilot study evaluating the intervention. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 caregivers who had completed the intervention. Content analysis was used to analyze the data. Themes identified from the interviews were: "helpfulness of the content", "if they can do it, so can I", and "applying what I have learned". Caregivers described the helpfulness of learning from expert healthcare professionals in a supportive environment. They valued the group setting, including interacting with and learning from their peers. Caregivers demonstrated mastery of the content by applying it to their caregiving situations and sharing information with other family members. These findings provide insights into successful elements in a complex care intervention that contributed to building caregiver self-efficacy.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The author(s) declare no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
(Published by Elsevier Inc.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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