THE PERFORMANCE OF CARE GIVERS FOR THE DEPENDENT ELDERLY IN NAGO SUB-DISTRICT, KUCHINARAI DITRICT, KALASIN PROVINCE

Authors

  • Thidarat Somdee Faculty of Public Health, Mahasarakham University
  • Pramon Pankumkaow Nago Health Promotion Hospital, Kuchinarai District, Kalasin Province
  • Pannika Ngampo Nago Subdistrict Administrative Organization, Kuchinarai District, Kalasin Province
  • Suneerat Yangyuen Faculty of Public Health, Mahasarakham University
  • Udomsak Mahaweerawat Faculty of Public Health, Mahasarakham University
  • Supattra Keawmuang Faculty of Public Health, Mahasarakham University
  • Chatchada Mahaweerawat Faculty of Medicine, Mahasarakham University

Keywords:

Care Giver, Dependent Elderly, Performance

Abstract

This cross-sectional descriptive study aimed to assess dependent elderly caregivers’ performance. The subject was 58 caregivers and 100 dependent elderly persons. The structured questionnaire was applied for data collection. The percentage, mean and Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient were applied for statistics analyses. The results showed that most of caregivers were female (69.0 %) with average age 54.98 years old, and had dependent elderly persons in charge 1-5 person (82.8%). All of them provided care activities 2 time per week (100.0%). Approximately 65.5% of the caregivers had moderate level of caring knowledge in dependent elderly persons and about 67.2 % of them had moderate level of caring skill in dependent elderly persons. The dependent elderly persons had satisfied with caregiver services as high level 40.0%. Additional, the caregiver’s caring knowledge and skill was statistically significant with performance of care service (r=0.414, p=0.001; r=0.547, p=0.001respectively).  This study pointed that caregiver's knowledge and skill were important to providing elderly health care. Therefore, relevant agencies should continuously provide training to revise the knowledge and skills for caregivers that will make them become more confident in their care service providing for the elderly.

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2020-11-27

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Somdee, T. ., Pankumkaow, P. ., Ngampo, P. ., Yangyuen, S. ., Mahaweerawat, U., Keawmuang, S. ., & Mahaweerawat, C. (2020). THE PERFORMANCE OF CARE GIVERS FOR THE DEPENDENT ELDERLY IN NAGO SUB-DISTRICT, KUCHINARAI DITRICT, KALASIN PROVINCE. Community Health Development Quarterly Khon Kaen University, 8(4), 489–500. retrieved from https://he05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/CHDMD_KKU/article/view/7080

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Vol. 8 No. 4 (2020): October-Decamber 2020

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