Survey on the caring behaviors and its influencing factors among family main caregivers of the elderly patients with pressure injury / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the caring behaviors among family main caregivers of the elderly patients with pressure injury and to analyze its influencing factors. Methods A total of 124 family main caregivers of the elderly patients with pressure injury were recruited by convenience sampling method. They were investigated with caregivers general information questionnaire, patients general information questionnaire and the self-designed pressure injury caring behaviors questionnaire. Results The total score of the pressure injury caring behaviors questionnaire was (66.22 ± 13.16). For each dimension of pressure injury caring behaviors questionnaire, the application of pressure-relief devices exhibited the lowest score(2.27), followed by wound care(2.33), position care(2.53), nutritional support (2.95) and skin care(3.03). Multiple regression analysis showed that caregiver′s economic level and whether have been attend training, the duration of the patients lie in bed and whether using air cushion bed accounted for 45.9 percent of the variance in caring behaviors. Conclusions There are many shortcomings and errors in caring behaviors among family main caregivers of the elderly patients with pressure injury.It is necessary to strengthen the health education of family main caregivers of patients with pressure injury to improve the level of caring behaviors and to reduce pressure injury′s recurrence rate of patients.