Qualitative research of post-traumatic growth in caregivers of dementia patients
10.3969/j.issn.1671-8283.2015.08.012
- VernacularTitle:老年痴呆患者照顾者创伤后成长的质性研究
- Author:
Qiong SUN
;
Hui HU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
dementia;
caregivers;
post-traumatic growth;
qualitative reasearch
- From:
Modern Clinical Nursing
2015;(8):42-45,46
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To analyze post-traumatic growth of Chinese caregivers of dementia patients and to explore the caregivers′positive and potential energy, in order to formulate more perfect nursing intervention measures. Method Useing phenomenological method of qualitative research in selecting 6 dementia caregivers in-depth interviews to understand possible posttraumatic growth. Result Five major themes were found: changes in individual cognitive, changes in relations with others, promote their children′s education, reflections and concerns on status of pension-related changes in philosophy of life. Conclusions Dementia caregivers also have the positive performance of posttraumatic growth, in addition to the negative experience. Clinical nurses should actively explore the potential and power from the growth perspective. This is conducive to the caregivers with more health caring for life, so as to improve the quality of care, and ultimately improve the quality of life.
