Demir Barutcu Canan
Department of Internal Medicine Nursing, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University Faculty of Health Sciences, Burdur, Turkey.
P R Health Sci J. 2019 Sep;38(3):163-169.
This study was conducted in order to examine the relationship between caregiver health literacy and caregiver burden.
A cross sectional and descriptive design was used. The research was carried out at the state hospital from November 2017 to January 2018. The study sample consisted of 215 caregivers. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews with a health literacy scale and a burden interview.
The research found that the participating caregivers had a high level of health literacy and a moderate level of care burden. There was a moderately negative relationship between health literacy and caregiver burden (r = -.310; p = .000). It was found that as a caregiver's level of health literacy increased, that individual's burden decreased.
It is important for individuals who are caring for chronic patients and need assistance in this tough process to stay healthy in terms of decreasing the care burden. Caregivers must be adequately health literate so that they will be able to understand basic health information and develop the proper self-care behavior that will enable them to maintain and even improve their own health status.
本研究旨在探讨照顾者健康素养与照顾者负担之间的关系。
采用横断面描述性设计。研究于2017年11月至2018年1月在一家州立医院进行。研究样本包括215名照顾者。通过使用健康素养量表和负担访谈进行面对面访谈收集数据。
研究发现，参与研究的照顾者健康素养水平较高，照顾负担处于中等水平。健康素养与照顾者负担之间存在中度负相关（r = -.310；p = .000）。研究发现，随着照顾者健康素养水平的提高，其负担会减轻。
对于照顾慢性病患者且在这一艰难过程中需要帮助的个人而言，保持健康对于减轻照顾负担很重要。照顾者必须具备足够的健康素养，以便他们能够理解基本的健康信息并养成适当的自我护理行为，从而能够维持甚至改善自己的健康状况。
