Myvizhi, R (2015) A study to assess the effectiveness of psycho education module on knowledge regarding dementia among care givers of old age people residing in Selected Community Area. Masters thesis, College of Nursing, Madras Medical College, Chennai.
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Abstract
Patients with chronic illnesses have intricate treatment protocols that require caregiver involvement, further complicating this already difficult care. Many family caregivers report they don't have the necessary skills and knowledge to provide sustained care for a person with a dementia this was a study to assess the effectiveness of psycho education module on knowledge regarding dementia among care givers of old age people residing in selected community area. The conceptual frame work adopted for this study was modified Wiedenbach model. The research approach used for this study is Interventional approach, and research design was one group pre test and post test design. The size of the sample study was 60. In this study 40.0% of the caregivers are having inadequate knowledge, 53.3% of them are having moderate knowledge and 6.7% of them are having adequate knowledge. After the administration of psycho education, none of the caregivers are having inadequate knowledge, 15% of them are having moderate and 85%of them are having adequate knowledge. Considering overall, in pretest, caregivers scored 55.0 and after psycho education, they are able to score 87.40 score. So the difference is 32.4.By comparing the effectiveness of psycho education, This is the net benefit of this study. Effectiveness of study was analysed using proportion with 95%. The association between level of knowledge gain of care givers of dementia clients were and their selective demographic variables. Younger χ2=5.07 p=0.02*, more educated χ2=6.00p=0.04*joint family χ2=6.66p=0.01**and less year caregivers χ2=6.78 p=0.01** gained more knowledge.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Psycho Education Module ; Knowledge ; Dementia ; Care Givers of Old Age People ; Community Area. |
| Subjects: | NURSING > Psychiatric Nursing |
| Depositing User: | Ramakrishnan J |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2017 06:37 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Feb 2018 03:15 |
| URI: | http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/1794 |
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