1MSc Student in Community Health Nursing, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Lorestan, Iran
2Nursing Department Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
*Corresponding author: Minoo Motaghi Nursing Department, Faculty of nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran. Email: m.motaghi912@gmail.com
Online published on 5 May, 2018.
World population is rapidly aging and forms one of the most important challenges of the world. Continuous care model is one of the models which has shown positive impacts, in this regard, the aim of this study is to investigate the effect of continuous care model on care burden and coping behavior of diabetic elderly caregivers in Poldokhtar City.
This is an intervention study that was conducted in 2017 in Poldokhtar City. 80 elderly caregivers of diabetic adults were classified into control and test groups (each group had 40 members). The data were collected by Zarit and coping strategies questionnaires. Before education for control and test group, care burden and coping strategies questionnaires were filled up by the patients, then, intervention was performed on the test group and three months after the intervention, the questionnaires were filled up by caregivers. The results were analyzed by descriptive and inference statistical tests.
Results showed that, before intervention, there was no significant difference between care burden and coping strategies of the two groups (p>0.05). But after the intervention, the caregivers of the test group experienced less care burden and better coping strategies in comparison with the control group.
Regarding the positive impact of continuous care model in reducing the care burden and improvement of coping strategies for caregivers of diabetic adults, such interventions are recommended for these caregivers.
Continuous care model, caregivers, care burden, coping strategies
