Kanongnij Chaiyawut. The factors influencing role strain among male caregivers of cerebrovascular disease patients . Master's Degree(Adult Nursing). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2004.
The factors influencing role strain among male caregivers of cerebrovascular disease patients
Abstract:
This research aims to study factors influencing role strain among male caregivers
of stroke patients. The subjects were 110 male caregivers who brought in the patients
under their care to the Out Patient Department of King Chulalongkorn Memorial
Hospital, Rajavitee Hospital, Pramongkutklao Hospital, and Prasart Neurological
Institute. A questionnair was used to obtain demographic information, mutuality,
rewards of caregiving, preparedness, strain from worry, and caregivers role strain. Data
were collected during January to June of 2003 and were analyzed by using descriptive
statistics, Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation, and Stepwise Multiple Regression.
The results showed that the average age of subjects was 44.17 years. More than
half of them (65.5%) were married; 49.1% were related to the patients as sons.
Approximately 23.6 % of them resigned from their job to take care of the patients. The
average income was 17,074 baht per month and only 42.7% reported that they had
adequate income for family expenses. However, they had no savings.The average
caregiving duration was 19.42 months The average time that they spent in caregiving
per day was 13.40 hours. Most of them (85.5%) had no experience in caregiving; 58.2%
of them received professional advice to take care of the patients. Approximately 30.9%
of them reported that they had some problematic health conditions prior to being
involved in a caregiver role, while 56.4% indicated that they had some problematic
health condition afterward. The reasons for being a caregiver were love and relationship
(44.6%). The responsibilities in caregiving included: taking the patients to see the
doctor, bathing, and dressing the patient, for those caregiver with a high level of
mutuality, rewards of caregiving, and preparedness, and a low level of strain from
worry and role strain. Mutuality, preparedness, and rewards of caregiving have negative
correlation with role strain (r = -.238, -.308, p < .01 ; r = -.193, p < .05 respectively).
Strain from worry has a positive correlation with role strain (r = .409, p < .01). Strain
from worry can be used to explain the caregiver’s role strain 16.7 %, and preparedness
can be used to explain role strain up to 25.3 %.
From the research, it is suggested that nurses should be aware of worry among
male caregivers during caregiving. They should be prepared about the process of the
disease, the management of the change of symptoms of the disease, to decrease worry
and encourage confidence for effective caregiving