Abstract:
The purpose of this descriptive research aimed to study the resilience in older person with stroke and to study the relationships between gender, education, marital status, depression, the activities of daily living, uncertainty, self-esteem and resilience in older person with stroke. Subject consisted of 93 older persons with first stroke, who were out-patients at the medicine and surgery neurology department, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Police General Hospital and Neurological Institute of Thailand. The instrument used for data collection were the demographic questionnaire, MMSE-Thai 2002, Barthel ADL Index, Thai Geriatric Depression Scale (TGDS), The Mishel Uncertainty in Illness Scale Community Form, The Cultural-Free Self-Esteem Inventory (CFSEI-2) and Thai Elderly Resilience scale. The reliabilities of Barthel ADL Index, Thai Geriatric Depression Scale (TGDS), The Mishel Uncertainty in Illness Scale Community Form, The Cultural-Free Self-Esteem Inventory (CFSEI-2) and Thai Elderly Resilience scale were .84, .85, .87, .80 and .93 respectively. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistic, Eta coefficient, Spearman rank-order correlation coefficient and Pearsons product moment correlation coefficient. Major findings were as follows: 1. Resilience among older persons with stroke was moderate level of resilience. (=73.49, SD=7.145) 2. There were positively significant relationship between education level, activities of daily living, self-esteem and resilience among older persons with stroke at the level of .05 (rs=.659, rs=.265, rxy=.620 respectively). 3. There were negatively significant relationship between depression, uncertainty in Illness and resilience among older persons with stroke at the level of .05 (rxy=-.310, rxy=-.603 respectively). 4. There were no correlation between gender, marital status and resilience among older persons with stroke.