Level of awareness and burden of family caregivers among non-institutionalized alzheimer's disease clients: A Filipino perspective Angeles, Mary Ann S. 6
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Thesis (M.A.) Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, 2011;A thesis presented to the faculty of the Graduate School of Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Nursing 56
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ABSTRACT: The study aimed to determine the level of awareness of family caregiver of non-institutionalized clients with Alzheimer's disease on the bio-medical and coping knowledge of the disease and the burden experiences on stress endurance and frustrations, role change and adaption, and physiological integrity preservation. It also wanted to determine the relationship between the level of awareness of family caregivers and its relationship to the burden experiences. Specifically, the study aimed to answer the following questions: What is the demographic profile of the family caregiver in terms of relationship to the client and stage of Alzheimer's disease of their relative care recipient. What is the level of awareness of the family caregiver among non-institutionalized clients with Alzheimer's disease terms of bio-medical knowledge and coping knowledge: To what extent the family caregivers of non-institutionalized Alzheimer's disease clients experience the following burden in terms of stress endurance, role change and adaptation, and physiological integrity preservation: Is there a relationship between the demographic profile and the level of awareness of family caregivers with non-institutionalized Alzheimer's disease clients? Is there a relationship between the demographic profile and the burden experiences of family caregivers with non-institutionalized Alzheimer's disease clients? Is there a significant relationship between the level of awareness and the burden of family caregivers with non-institutionalized Alzheimer's disease clients? The following null hypothesis was tested using 0.05 level of significance: There is no significant relationship between the demographic profile and the level of awareness of family caregivers with non-institutionalized Alzheimer's disease clients. There is no significant relationship between the demographic profile and the burden of family caregivers with non-institutionalized Alzheimer's disease clients. There is no significant relationship between the level of awareness and the burden of family caregivers with non-institutionalized Alzheimer's disease clients. A total sample of 100 family caregivers participated in the study by using the purposive sampling techniques. Criteria were set for the family caregivers, they should be the primary caregivers of the AD clients, 18 years and above, residing within Metro Manila, willing to participate and their AD clients must be diagnosed by neurologists using different diagnostic tests. Questionnaires were used as the main tool for the research data instrumentation. It has three main parts namely: respondent's demographic profile, Dementia quiz, and the Caregiver's Burden Assessment tool. Frequency and percentage distribution, weighted mean, chi-square test and Pearson r were the statistical treatment used. Findings of the study shows that majority of the family caregivers were daughters of the AD clients and majority of care recipients were on stage 1 or mild stage of the disease. Family caregivers had a low level of awareness for both bio-medical and coping knowledge. In terms of burden experiences of the family caregivers, they experienced high extent of burden on the following situations such as; realizing that caregiving is never ending engaging in the day-to-day caregiving work, maintaining the dignity of AD client, client's limitation and safety. A significant relationship exist between relationship of caregivers and both the bio-medical and coping knowledge. In terms of stage of AD and level of awareness, no significant relationship exist between the bio-medical knowledge, while a significant relationship exist between coping knowledge and stage of AD. A significant relationship exist between relationship in terms of relationship of the caregivers and stage of AD and the burden experiences. As a result of Pearson r, a significant relationship exist bio-medical and burden experiences of the family caregivers. On the contrary, based from the result there is no significant relationship between the coping knowledge and burden experiences. Based on the result of the study, recommendations were formulated to benefit not only the patient and the caregiver but also the future researchers and those in the healthcare profession.
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