Exploring the needs of family caregivers: preliminary findings

Background: Family caregivers play an important role at home during the rehabilitation phase of severe traumatic brain injury survivor. Understand the survivor’s needs was the most crucial thing to focus on. The purpose of this study is to explore the needs of family caregivers towards the care of...

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Main Authors: Othman, Hamidah, Mohamed Ludin, Salizar
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/71207/
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spelling iium-712072019-03-26T08:18:03Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/71207/ Exploring the needs of family caregivers: preliminary findings Othman, Hamidah Mohamed Ludin, Salizar RT82 Nursing As A Profession Background: Family caregivers play an important role at home during the rehabilitation phase of severe traumatic brain injury survivor. Understand the survivor’s needs was the most crucial thing to focus on. The purpose of this study is to explore the needs of family caregivers towards the care of sTBI survivor at home. Methods: A purposive sampling of ten Malaysian family caregivers from the adult intensive care unit was selected. Data were collected using a semi-structured interview guide which has helped the participants in providing their responses. An open, axial and selective coding was conducted to analyse the data. The qualitative data were analysed by using NVIVO analysis software. Results: Two significant themes emerged from the analysis: (a) Support needed by family caregivers, and (b) the information needed. Data shows that family caregivers certainly need support from the various parties and the participants are lack of information on specific care for the severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) survivors. Conclusions: Family caregivers definitely require support and seek for more useful information to provide a good care to their loved one. Being aware of the family caregiver's needs will enable them to be better prepared and able to provide an improved customized care. 2018-09-08 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/71207/4/Oral%20ICON%20Pre.Data-Hamidah%20%281%29.pdf Othman, Hamidah and Mohamed Ludin, Salizar (2018) Exploring the needs of family caregivers: preliminary findings. In: The 4th International Conference on Nursing (ICON) 2018, 8th-9th September 2018, Malang, Indonesia. (Unpublished)
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Exploring the needs of family caregivers: preliminary findings
description Background: Family caregivers play an important role at home during the rehabilitation phase of severe traumatic brain injury survivor. Understand the survivor’s needs was the most crucial thing to focus on. The purpose of this study is to explore the needs of family caregivers towards the care of sTBI survivor at home. Methods: A purposive sampling of ten Malaysian family caregivers from the adult intensive care unit was selected. Data were collected using a semi-structured interview guide which has helped the participants in providing their responses. An open, axial and selective coding was conducted to analyse the data. The qualitative data were analysed by using NVIVO analysis software. Results: Two significant themes emerged from the analysis: (a) Support needed by family caregivers, and (b) the information needed. Data shows that family caregivers certainly need support from the various parties and the participants are lack of information on specific care for the severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) survivors. Conclusions: Family caregivers definitely require support and seek for more useful information to provide a good care to their loved one. Being aware of the family caregiver's needs will enable them to be better prepared and able to provide an improved customized care.
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author Othman, Hamidah
Mohamed Ludin, Salizar
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Mohamed Ludin, Salizar
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title Exploring the needs of family caregivers: preliminary findings
title_short Exploring the needs of family caregivers: preliminary findings
title_full Exploring the needs of family caregivers: preliminary findings
title_fullStr Exploring the needs of family caregivers: preliminary findings
title_full_unstemmed Exploring the needs of family caregivers: preliminary findings
title_sort exploring the needs of family caregivers: preliminary findings
publishDate 2018
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/71207/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/71207/4/Oral%20ICON%20Pre.Data-Hamidah%20%281%29.pdf
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