Supattraporn Doungkumchan. Family care activities in providing care for kidney transplanted patients . Master's Degree(Population Education). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2006.
Family care activities in providing care for kidney transplanted patients
Abstract:
This explanatory research aimed to study family care activities in providing care for
the kidney transplanted patients, the factors related to these activities, and the relationship
between the activities and the kidney transplanted patient’s health status.
The target populations were family caregivers and kidney transplanted patients.
There were 250 samples for each group. The purposive sampling method was used to select
samples. A structured interview questionnaire was used to collect data on the length of
patient care, family income, family characteristics, education level of family members,
family relationship, social support, loss/illness of key family members, post-operation
complications, and the past illness history of the patient. Physical health status was
determined by the specialist kidney doctor and the Dupuy happiness test was used to assess
mental health status. Multiple regression analysis(MRA) was used to determine factors
related to family care activities in providing care for kidney transplanted patients and simple
regression analysis was used to analyze the relationship between family care activities and
the kidney transplanted patient’s health status.
The findings indicated that over half of the familes (55.20 %) performed a high
level of family care activities. Significant statistically factors (.05) related to family care
activities in providing care for kidney transplanted patients were family relationship, social
support, post-operation complications, and education level of family member and 41.2 %of
this relation could be explained by these independent variables. While physical health status
had no relation to family care activities, mental health status was found to be related to
family care activities in providing care for the kidney transplanted patients. The above
findings suggest that the hospitals and related organizations should promote and design care
activities to improve the family relationship, for example, participatory activities for the
patients and the family members, and family care providers’ education to solve any patient’s
problem. Comparative research for the kidney transplanted patients care is recommended to
provide new models for the more appropriate patient care.