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KMID : 0377619960610100807
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1996 Volume.61 No. 10 p.807 ~ p.817
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The Relationship with Caregiving Context and Caregiving Burden for Caregivers of Chronically Ill Patients
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Abstract
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The number of families who are caring for, chronically ill patients will be increased in this society. In our society, it is natural that family take care of a patient. Caregivers will have a physical, a psychological, a social, and financial burden
The purpose of this study was to figure out the amount of caregiver´s burden and to determine the role of caregiving context affecting caregiver´s burden.
Data collection used questionnaire with interview and subjects were caregivers of 70 chronically ill patients, hospitalized at two general hospital in K city.
Caregiving context consisted of income, economical status, staying hours at bed side, available second caregiver, admission days, caregiving period, illness stage and severity, prognosis of patient, physical health of caregivers, reciprocity, ADL of patient.
The survey results were analyzed using the SPSS and can be summarized as follows 64.3 % of the subjects who were caring for chronically ill patients was female and caregivers under 39 years were 45.7 %. 55.7 % of the subjects had more than high school education and 68.6 % of caregivers believed in a religion.
The mean score of the burden of caregivers was 72.35 from, the possible range bf 25 -125. The item mean score was 2.89 among the possible range of 1-5. The higher items of the burden scores were for I am worrying about the prognosis of patients (3.89). It is a suffering for me to see patients (3.69). 1 couldn´t have enough time for the care of patients (3.60). ´The cost is too expensive (3.39). These scores reflected the physical, social, emotional, economic burden.
There was a statistically significant difference in the degree of caregiver´s burden according to the income, economic status, caregiving period, illness severity, reciprocity, ADL of patient.
The high risk group for caregiving burden of caregivers had following characteristics - low income, low economical status, long caregiving period, degree of patient´s illness is serious, lower reciprocity with patients, higher dependency of ADL.
In the conclusion we should try to develop nursing interventions for caregivers.
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