Volume 6 Issue 3 August - October 2016
Research Paper
Are you Prepared to Care your Loved Ones: A Cross Sectional Study to Assess the Level of Preparedness Among Caregivers of Chronically Ill Patients in a Tertiary Care Hospital, at Karachi, Pakistan
shireen Arif *
*Senior Instructor, Ziauddin College of Nursing,
Arif, S. (2016). Are you Prepared to Care your Loved Ones: A Cross Sectional Study to Assess the Level of Preparedness Among Caregivers of Chronically Ill Patients in a Tertiary Care Hospital, at Karachi, Pakistan. i-manager’s Journal on Nursing, 6(3), 32-35. https://doi.org/10.26634/jnur.6.3.8260
Abstract
Caregivers are the members of the Patient's family that provide care to the patient. They are often known as informal caregivers. According to National alliance for care giving the informal caregivers are the one who has to respond the daily need of the patient at home. The care provided by them includes all levels of care voluntarily to their loved ones. There is a need to care these caregivers otherwise they could end up into adverse physical and psychological consequences of care giving. The aim of the study was to assess the level of preparedness of caregivers to provide their loved ones and to identify that who they perceived that will help them to increase their level of preparedness. The selfadministered instrument regarding the preparedness for care giving scale by Archbold, et al. (1990) has been utilized to collect data of the study. The data were collected from 50 caregivers after signing of consent forms, from which 23 were male and 22 were female. The result of the study reveals that 100% of the participants felt that they are not too prepared for providing care to their loved ones and they perceived that nurses are the ones who should provide them information to increase their level of preparedness.
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