Study on maltreatment tendency and influencing factors among family caregivers of elderly patients with chronic diseases
10.3969/j.issn.1671-8348.2017.25.034
- VernacularTitle:老年慢性病患者家庭照顾者虐待倾向及影响因素研究
- Author:
Xiuying TAO
;
Jun SHEN
- Keywords:
chronic diseases;
family caregivers;
elder abuse tendency;
aged
- From:
Chongqing Medicine
2017;46(25):3565-3568
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To probe into the status quo of maltreatment tendency among family caregivers of elderly patients with chronic diseases and its influence factors.Methods Totally 402 family caregivers of the elderly patients with chronic diseases were selected and surveyed by using the Chinese version of caregiver elder abuse assessment scale and the results underwent statistical analysis.Results 63.70％ of family caregivers in elderly patients with chronic diseases had the elder abuse risk tendency and its influence factors were involved with both aspects of family caregivers and the care recipients,including the gender,cultural level and self-care ability of daily living in the elderly patients with chronic diseases and the age,cultural level,care period and living together with elderly in caregivers.Conclusion The elder abuse problem in the patients with chronic diseases should be paid more attention to,which needs the collaboration of multidisciplinary team,various effective ways should be adopted to relieve the family caregivers' pressure for reducing the occurrenc of elder abuse risk.
