Effects of family members’ empowerment program on family members’ food preparing behaviors for elderly diabetic patients
Keywords:
Empowerment program, family members, food preparation behaviors, elderly diabetic patientsAbstract
Background: The lose power of family members which leads to inappropriate food preparations behaviors for elderly diabetics. As a result, older people with diabetes control the blood sugar level more difficult. Empowering family members in the appropriate food preparations behavior will help elderly diabetes patients have the right dietary behavior, while enabling normal control of the progression of the disease to normal conditions.
Objective: To study the effects of a family member empowerment program on family members’ food preparation behaviors for elderly diabetic patients.
Methods: The subjects were family members aged 25 - 59 years who performed the main duty of preparing food for elderly diabetic patients, with 33 people in each group. Data collection tools are three questionnaires and empowerment program administered over a period of six weeks.
Results: The program contributed to higher mean scores for the food preparation behavior of family members who were caregivers for elderly diabetic patients in the experimental group than in the control group. Furthermore, the experimental group had significantly higher mean posttest scores than pretest scores, while there were no differences in the pre- and posttest mean scores for the food preparation behaviors in the control group.
Conclusions: The empowerment program received by the family members of elderly diabetic patients gave family members of elderly diabetic patients’ self-confidence and feelings of being empowered to prepare appropriate foods for elderly diabetic patients.
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