Main Needs and Difficulties of Caregivers to Care of Dependent Patients

Landeiro, Maria José Lumini

Friday, July 15, 2011: 8:50 AM

Maria José Lumini Landeiro, MsC
School of Nursing, Nursing School College, Oporto, Portugal
Teresa Martins, PhD
School of Nursing, Oporto Nursing School, Oporto, Portugal

Learning Objective 1: The learner will be able to learn about the main necessities and difficulties of caregivers.

Learning Objective 2: The learner will be able to learn about strategies and nursing therapeutics to implement to the caregivers.

The nurse should focus its attention on the family caregiver in order to facilitate the acquisition in the learning and knowledge of skills.

Aim of the study:

Develop and evaluate an interactive tool to improve teaching and effectiveness of care to be provided by family caregivers to dependent patients.

Methods:

Quantitative and qualitative study, quasi-experimental field, with two study groups. To be implemented in an Oporto`s hospital. Consisting of three phases:

1.ª - Identify the needs and difficulties of family caregivers to care for dependent patients. We made a literature review and semi – estrutured interviews

2.ª- The construction of the interactive tool to be accessible in the web to the caregivers

3.ª - Evaluating the effectiveness of the interactive tool.

Results :

We finalized the interviews with nurses and family caregivers (Phase 1). We made 14 interviews to the nurses and 12 interviews to the caregivers. Generically, results pointed and identified by both, needs in the instrumental and emotional domain. These results are overlap to literature.

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