Effectiveness of home-based palliative care programmes for older people and their family caregivers in Thailand.

International journal of palliative nursing Pub Date : 2023-11-02 DOI:10.12968/ijpn.2023.29.11.518

Kanyanat Supaporn, Sang-Arun Isaramalai, Uayart Chuchuen, Patcharin Manee

{"title":"Effectiveness of home-based palliative care programmes for older people and their family caregivers in Thailand.","authors":"Kanyanat Supaporn, Sang-Arun Isaramalai, Uayart Chuchuen, Patcharin Manee","doi":"10.12968/ijpn.2023.29.11.518","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Background: People in Thailand receiving palliative care at home can have complex needs and this means that the family caregiver can have a high burden of care.Aim: To assess the impact of a nursing care activities for a home-based palliative care programme (NHBPC) on the care burden among family caregivers and the care quality in older people at the palliative care stage.Methods: This quasi-experimental repeated measure study was used to investigate the effects of the nursing care activities for a NHBPC programme.Results: The mean caregiving burden and care quality scores in the experimental and control groups at post-test and 2-weeks follow-up showed significant differences (p<.05). In addition, improvement was not seen in the control group.Conclusion: The NHBPC programme significantly improved caregiving burden and quality of care in Thai older people and their family caregiver. This confirms that the NHBPC programme plays a crucial role in helping them to improve quality of life.","PeriodicalId":94055,"journal":{"name":"International journal of palliative nursing","volume":"29 11","pages":"518-526"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International journal of palliative nursing","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.12968/ijpn.2023.29.11.518","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Background: People in Thailand receiving palliative care at home can have complex needs and this means that the family caregiver can have a high burden of care.

Aim: To assess the impact of a nursing care activities for a home-based palliative care programme (NHBPC) on the care burden among family caregivers and the care quality in older people at the palliative care stage.

Methods: This quasi-experimental repeated measure study was used to investigate the effects of the nursing care activities for a NHBPC programme.

Results: The mean caregiving burden and care quality scores in the experimental and control groups at post-test and 2-weeks follow-up showed significant differences (p<.05). In addition, improvement was not seen in the control group.

Conclusion: The NHBPC programme significantly improved caregiving burden and quality of care in Thai older people and their family caregiver. This confirms that the NHBPC programme plays a crucial role in helping them to improve quality of life.

查看原文本刊更多论文

泰国老年人及其家庭照顾者家庭姑息治疗规划的有效性。

背景:在泰国，在家接受姑息治疗的人可能有复杂的需求，这意味着家庭照护者可能有很高的照护负担。目的:评估以家庭为基础的姑息治疗计划(NHBPC)的护理活动对家庭照顾者的护理负担和老年人姑息治疗阶段的护理质量的影响。方法:采用准实验重复测量法研究护理活动对新生儿健康护理计划的影响。结果:实验组和对照组在测试后和2周随访时的平均照护负担和照护质量得分有显著差异(p)结论:NHBPC方案显著改善了泰国老年人及其家庭照护者的照护负担和照护质量。这证实了NHBPC方案在帮助他们提高生活质量方面起着至关重要的作用。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

International journal of palliative nursing

自引率

0.00%

发文量