Life Situation as Next of Kin to Persons in Need of Care: Chronic Sorrow, Burden and Quality of Life
- Författare
- Liedström, E.
- Titel
- Life Situation as Next of Kin to Persons in Need of Care: Chronic Sorrow, Burden and Quality of Life
- Utgivningsår
- 2014
- Stad
- Örebro
- Utgivare
- Örebro Studies in Care Sciences 52
- Universitet
- Örebro University
- Sammanfattning
Aim and Objectives: To increase the understanding of next of kin's life situation in the context of supporting persons who are long term ill, disabled and/or older by describing their experienced burden and quality of life and also the relationship between QoL, burden and socioeconomic variables.
Methods: Cross-sectional, descriptive and correlative design. Eighty-four next of kin answered two questionnaires: the Caregiver Burden Scale and the Subjective Quality of Life.
Results: Next of kin experienced a high burden in their life situation although they, at the same time, experienced a good quality of life. In the results gender differences were found. Females next of kin to a higher extent were disappointed, more emotionally involved, and they also estimated their economic situation as more unsatisfactory than the males next of kin.
Conclusion: Healthcare personnel meet next of kin, persons in need of care, within all healthcare and social care in society.Therefore it is important to have a general knowledge and ability to understand the next of kin's life situation, thus making it possible to focus the nursing interventions on individual support regardless of the care receiver's diagnosis.