Improving the care stress, life quality, and family functions for family-caregiver in long-term care by home modification
| Autor: | Pin-Hsuan Lin, Pei Lun Hsieh, Meng-Chi Chen, Ying-Lien Lin, Shih-Hau Fu, Shang-Yu Yang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Gerontology Family caregivers business.industry Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Psychological intervention Disease Anxiety Middle Aged medicine.disease Long-Term Care Long-term care Quality of life (healthcare) Caregivers Surveys and Questionnaires Intervention (counseling) Scale (social sciences) Quality of Life Humans Medicine Caregiver stress Family business Aged |
| Zdroj: | Industrial Health. 60:485-497 |
| ISSN: | 1880-8026 0019-8366 |
| DOI: | 10.2486/indhealth.2021-0176 |
| Popis: | This study examined whether interventions through barrier-free home environment improvements could reduce family caregivers' care stress, improve their family functions, and increase their quality of life. This study recruited family caregivers of older people with disabilities from a long-term care management center in central Taiwan. These older people required improvements related to a barrier-free home environment. A pretest was conducted before and a post-test was conducted 2 months after the improvements. The content of the pretest and the post-test questionnaires included: demographic characteristics, Caregiver stress scale, Family functions scale, World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF) Questionnaire. This study recruited 72 family caregivers; the average age was 56.25 ± 12.99 years. The results indicated that interventions through barrier-free home environment improvements could significantly reduce the family caregivers' care stress, improve their family functions (e.g., reducing conflicts), and enhance their quality of life. Additionally, after intervention, the family cohesion of family caregivers caring for those with mild disability improved to a greater extent than did that of those caring for people with other disease severities. This study revealed that interventions involving barrier-free home environment improvements have positive effects on family caregivers. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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