Abstract:
This research is the quasi-experimental research which aimed to study the effect of caregiving skill development and caregiver support group program on stress in caregivers of older person with terminal cancer stage. The sample consisted of 40 caregivers, male and female, who provided care for older person with terminal cancer stages and admitted at Mahavachiralongkorn Hospital, Thanyaburi. They were divided into 2 groups, 20 caregivers of control group received conventional nursing and 20 caregivers of experiment group received conventional nursing and combining with caregiving skill development and caregiver support group program. The length of time for intervention was 6 weeks, during the first to the second week, the experiment group received skill training activity in caring for older person with terminal cancer stage for 6 times and caregiver support group for 4 times. Then the follow up cases was made on the phone called once a week in the third to the fifth week after older person left the hospital. At the end of the sixth week, their stress was evaluated. The research instruments consisted of personal data onto the caregiver and older person with terminal cancer stage, Caregiver Strain Index (CSI), which the reliability of the instrument was 0.81, and the caregiving skill development and caregiver support group program. The data was analyzed by average, percent, standard deviation, dependent t-test and independent t-test.The result can be summarized as follows:1. The experimental group, after receiving the program had statistically significantly lower stress than before received the program at the level of .05.2. The experimental group, after receiving the program had statistically significantly lower stress than the control group at the level of .05