Psychological distress and its associated factors among caregivers of geriatric patients in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (Hospital USM)
Psychological distress among caregivers of geriatric patients will create negative consequence to geriatric patients and patient will receive poor quality care from their caregivers. A cross sectional, desc1iptive survey was can·ied out to determine the Psychological distress and its associated f...
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| 語言: | English |
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Pusat Pengajian Sains Kesihatan, Universiti Sains Malaysia
2015
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| 在線閱讀: | http://eprints.usm.my/57988/1/NOR%20HAZIRAH%20BINTI%20MOHD%20RAZALI-24%20pages.pdf http://eprints.usm.my/57988/ |
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| 總結: | Psychological distress among caregivers of geriatric patients will create negative
consequence to geriatric patients and patient will receive poor quality care from their
caregivers. A cross sectional, desc1iptive survey was can·ied out to determine the
Psychological distress and its associated factors among caregivers of geriatric patients in
Hospital USM. In total 212 caregivers were successfully approaches at Hospital USM.
Subjects was randomly selected that fits with inclusion criteria. Data was statistically
analysed using SPSS software version 22.0. Statistical significant was considered at p value
< 0.05. Majority of the subjects have low psychological distress (60.4 %) and remaining is
the high psychological distress (39.6%). There were significant associations between age p
< 0.00 I, marital status p = 0.007 and level of education p = < 0.00 I with psychological
distress among caregiver of geriatric patients in Hospital USM. Gender p = 0.049 and
economic status p = 0.12 were no significant association with psychological distress among
caregiver or geriatric patients in Hospital USM. Moreover, researcher also found that there
were significant association between age and the selected factors of stressor to the
caregivers (physical health). |
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