Factors Effecting to Caregiver’s Practicing of Rehabilitation Care for Elderly Dependents at Muang District, Nakhon Sawan Province.

Abstract

Abstract

This descriptive research aimed to study either selected factors association or jointly predict factor effected to caregiver’s performance of rehabilitation care for elderly dependents at Muang District, Nakhon Sawan Province. Population in this study consisted of 213 caregivers who have been training elderly care program within 70 hours which be registered in Muang District, Nakhon Sawan Province, and the sample size calculating used Daniel formula for 150 cases, and systematic random sampling was determine for collecting data. Data collected by questionnaires composed of 7 parts including, characteristics, predisposing factors (knowledge, attitude, health perception), enabling factors, reinforcing factors, and performance of elderly care dependents. In addition to check questionnaire standardization, validity was checked by 3 experts and try out testing reliability by Cronbach’s coefficient alpha about 0.86. Data analyzed using statistical as Pearson product moment correlation coefficient and Stepwise multiple regression analysis. An association analyzed found that, factors were associated with caregiver’s performance of rehabilitation care for elderly dependents at Muang District, Nakhon Sawan Province with statistic significant including knowledge (r=0.287, P-value=0.004) attitude (r=0.287, P-value=0.004) health perception (r=0.491, P-value=0.006) reinforcing factors (r=0.173, P-value=0.045), respectively. Prediction model analyzed reported that perceived of benefit (P-value<0.001) perceived of barrier (P-value=0.003) knowledge’ nutrition for elderly (P-value=0.003) selected factors accounted for 83.1%.