Factors affecting caregiver’s performance of rehabilitation care for elderly dependents at Mae Sot District, Tak province
Journal Title: International Journal of Public Health Asia Pacific (IJPHAP) - Year 2022, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
Background: Care giver is a very important person who takes care of elderly group for health rehabilitation and wellbeing with quality of life. Objectives: This descriptive study aimed to study either selected factors associated or jointly predicting factors affecting caregiver’s performance of rehabilitation care for elderly dependents at Mae Sot district, Tak Province. Method: Population consisted of 150 caregivers who had completed training elderly care program within 70 hours which were registered in Mae Sot district, Tak Province, in fiscal year 2020, and the sample size calculation used Daniel formula for 107 cases, and systematic random sampling was performed for collecting data. Data collected by questionnaires composed of 7 parts including, characteristics, predisposing factors (knowledge, attitude, health perception), enabling factors, reinforcing factors, and performance of elderly care dependents. In addition to checking questionnaire standardization, validity was checked by 3 experts and tried out testing reliability by Cronbach’s coefficient alpha about 0.86. Data was analyzed by using statistical as Pearson product moment correlation coefficient and stepwise multiple regression analysis. Results: An association analysis found that, knowledge of elderly’ health problem was associated with caregiver’s performance of rehabilitation care for elderly dependents at Mae Sot district, Tak Province with statistic significant (r=0.291, P-value =0.002). Prediction model analysis reported that knowledge of elderly’ health problem and caregiver education sorted out factors with 15.1%. Conclusion: Thus, improving knowledge of caregiver is very necessary which affects attitude and skill of rehabilitation care for elderly group, to support training process and practice.
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Amornsak Poum
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- DOI https://doi.org/10.62992/ijphap.v1i1.9
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