Exploring the Background, Context, and Stressors of Caregiving to Elderly Burned Patients: A Qualitative Inquiry
| Autor: | Pius Agbenorku, Jonathan Bayuo, Patience Aniteye, Solina Richter |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Adult
Male Gerontology Emotions Context (language use) Ghana Fight-or-flight response Nonprobability sampling Stress process Elderly persons Humans Medicine Family Qualitative Research Aged business.industry Rehabilitation Stressor Social Support Middle Aged Caregivers Content analysis Emergency Medicine Female Surgery Burns business Psychosocial Stress Psychological |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Burn Care & Research. 43:196-201 |
| ISSN: | 1559-0488 1559-047X |
| Popis: | Elderly persons are at risk of experiencing burns and require support from both formal and informal caregivers. Informal caregiving in this situation has been minimally explored. Guided by the Stress Process Model, this study aimed at exploring the background, context, and stressors of informal caregivers of elderly burned persons during hospitalization. A qualitative descriptive design was utilized. Purposive sampling approach was used to recruit fourteen (14) informal caregivers who rendered care to elderly burned persons during hospitalization. Interviews were conducted and transcribed verbatim following which directed content analysis was undertaken deductively. Three categories and six subcategories emerged which characterize the background, context, and stressors of informal caregiving to elderly burn patients. All the injuries occurred in the home setting and its sudden nature led to varied postburn emotional responses which characterized the context of burns caregiving. Primary stressors that emerged were related to the injury, actual caregiving demand, and concerns regarding increasing frailty levels. Secondary stressors identified were financial concerns and lifestyle changes. The findings suggest that the occurrence of burn injury served as a precursor to postburn stress response among informal caregivers. Increasing frailty levels, adequacy of household safety measures, and financial issues were key concerns which emphasize the need for psychosocial/transitional support, innovative healthcare financing measures, and continuing education on burns prevention in the home setting. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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