Impact of community comprehensive intervention on healthy behavior and self-rated health status among family caregivers of disabled elderly
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1671-7368.2017.03.008
- VernacularTitle:社区综合干预对失能老人家庭照顾者健康行为及健康自评的影响
- Author:
Wei XU
;
Chenguang QIAN
;
Xinmei LIU
;
Li CHEN
;
Juan DU
- Keywords:
Disability;
Aged;
Community health services;
Family caregivers
- From:
Chinese Journal of General Practitioners
2017;16(3):205-209
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To investigate the effect of community comprehensive intervention on health behavior and self-rated health status among family caregivers of disabled elderly.Methods One hundredand twenty family caregivers of disabled elderly were selected from community health service centers of Beijing Dongcheng District,and were given 6 month-comprehensive community intervention (intervention group);121 family caregivers of disabled elderly from another community were selected as the control group.The knowledge and skills of caregiving,health behaviors (daily exercise time,daily relaxation time) and self-rated health status were evaluated before and 6 months after intervention.Results The knowledge and skill scores in intervention group were improved by 50.781 points,the daily exercise time and daily relaxation time were prolonged by 0.491 h and 0.837 h,respectively after the intervention (all P＜0.05).There was no significant difference in self-rated health status of two groups before and after intervention (P ＞0.05).Conclusion Community comprehensive intervention improves the knowledge and skills of caregiving,and the health behaviors among family caregivers of disabled elderly,but the intervention measures does not impact the self-rated health status of family caregivers.
