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KMID : 0928020040080010105
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Nursing and Innovation
2004 Volume.8 No. 1 p.105 ~ p.116
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Burden and Depression among Family Caregivers of Stroke patients
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Jung Ok-Bun
Park Jum-Hee
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Abstract
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This study was designed to evaluate the burden and depression perceived by family caregivers of hospitalized stroke patients and to assess their relationship with family caregivers` general characteristics and their relationship with each other.
The subjects were 172 family care givers whose family members were admitted in 10 chinese medicine hospitals due to stroke. Burden was evaluated using burden scale composed of 29 questions which is categorized into 6 subscales and depression was evaluated using Korean version of CES-D which is composed of 20 questions. General characteristics of care givers were evaluated using questionnaire composed of 14 questions devised by the author. Data was analyzed by means of t-test, ANOVA and Pearson`s correlation using SPSS(R) window version.
The results were as follows:
Mean score of burden was 3.12. Family caregivers who were of sixty and over, who were patient`s spouses, who had been paying all the hospital fees, who perceived the severity of patient`s illness to be very serious, whose total care periods were 7 months or more, who had spent 16 hours or more in care during a day, who had no alternative care giver or who perceived themselves to be unhealthy showed significantly high scores of burden. Of the subscales of burden, score for time-dependent burden was the greatest(mean 4.02) and that for emotional burden was the lowest(mean 2.52) with statistical significance.
Mean score of depression was 23.49. Family caregivers who were in their fifties, who were patient`s spouses, who were married rather than single, whose educational backgrounds were equal to or lower than those of lower secondary school, who perceived the severity of patient`s illness to be very serious, whose total care periods were 7 months or more, who had spent 16 hours or more in care during a day, who had no alternative care giver or who perceived themselves to be unhealthy showed significantly high scores of depression.
Depression of family care givers was significantly correlated to their burden in every subscales.
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KEYWORD
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stroke, caregiver, burden, depression
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