Evaluation of Home Health Care Intervention for Cerebral Stroke Patients and Their Caregivers in Benha City | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||||
| Article 10, Volume 8, Issue 2, June 2017, Page 118-135 PDF (441.03 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2017.44930 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Mona Abdalla Abdelmordy; Howyida Sadek Abd El-Hameed; Hanaa Abd El-GawadAbd ElMegeed; Ebtisam Mohamed Abdelaal | ||||
| Community Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Cerebrovascular stroke has become an increasingly important health problem worldwide. It is ranked as the third leading cause of death, behind heart disease and cancer. Stroke is a leading cause of serious long- term disability. The aim of this study was to evaluate home health care intervention for cerebral stroke patients and their caregivers in Benha city. Design: Quasi - experimental design was utilized in carrying out this study. Setting: the study was conducted at the neurologic outpatients' clinics of Benha University Hospital, Health Insurance Hospital and Teaching Hospital in Benha City. The sample of this study included 100 stroke disease patients chosen randomly from total (1000).Tools utilized in this study comprised a structured interviewing questionnaire for the assessment of the stroke patients and their caregivers' sociodemographic characteristics, knowledge about disease, daily living activities and caregivers burden scale; and observational checklist for home environment assessment, caregivers practices to their patients as feeding, communication skills, giving medications and oral hygiene and degree of self-dependency of cerebral stroke patients through daily living activities. Results of this study showed that 64% of the stroke patients were males and aged 48 years or more with mean age was 54.3±18.2, the majority of caregivers were females, 30% of them aged 18-˂ 28 years with mean age was 36.6±12.4. There was a significant positive effect of home health care intervention on knowledge and practices of cerebral stroke patients and their caregivers after the implementation of the intervention. This study concluded that, there was highly statistically significant relation in the total knowledge score of the stroke patients and their caregivers' pre and post program implementation and there was a positive significant correlation between stroke patient caregivers' total knowledge score and total practices pre and post program implementation. Recommendations: Health educational program should provide stroke patients and their caregivers' with the needed knowledge and practices before hospital discharge. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Cerebral stroke; caregivers; home health care intervention; daily living activities | ||||
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