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Psychological distress and its associated factors among caregivers of geriatric patients in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (Hospital USM)

Psychological distress among caregivers of geriatric patients will create negative consequence to geriatric patients and patient will receive poor quality care from their caregivers. A cross sectional, desc1iptive survey was can·ied out to determine the Psychological distress and its associated f...

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Main Author: Razali, Nor Hazirah Mohd
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Language:English
Published: Pusat Pengajian Sains Kesihatan, Universiti Sains Malaysia 2015
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BF511-593 Emotion, Feeling, Affection
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spelling my.usm.eprints.57988 http://eprints.usm.my/57988/ Psychological distress and its associated factors among caregivers of geriatric patients in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (Hospital USM) Razali, Nor Hazirah Mohd BF511-593 Emotion, Feeling, Affection Psychological distress among caregivers of geriatric patients will create negative consequence to geriatric patients and patient will receive poor quality care from their caregivers. A cross sectional, desc1iptive survey was can·ied out to determine the Psychological distress and its associated factors among caregivers of geriatric patients in Hospital USM. In total 212 caregivers were successfully approaches at Hospital USM. Subjects was randomly selected that fits with inclusion criteria. Data was statistically analysed using SPSS software version 22.0. Statistical significant was considered at p value < 0.05. Majority of the subjects have low psychological distress (60.4 %) and remaining is the high psychological distress (39.6%). There were significant associations between age p < 0.00 I, marital status p = 0.007 and level of education p = < 0.00 I with psychological distress among caregiver of geriatric patients in Hospital USM. Gender p = 0.049 and economic status p = 0.12 were no significant association with psychological distress among caregiver or geriatric patients in Hospital USM. Moreover, researcher also found that there were significant association between age and the selected factors of stressor to the caregivers (physical health). Pusat Pengajian Sains Kesihatan, Universiti Sains Malaysia 2015-06 Monograph NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/57988/1/NOR%20HAZIRAH%20BINTI%20MOHD%20RAZALI-24%20pages.pdf Razali, Nor Hazirah Mohd (2015) Psychological distress and its associated factors among caregivers of geriatric patients in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (Hospital USM). Project Report. Pusat Pengajian Sains Kesihatan, Universiti Sains Malaysia. (Submitted)
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Razali, Nor Hazirah Mohd
Psychological distress and its associated factors among caregivers of geriatric patients in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (Hospital USM)
description Psychological distress among caregivers of geriatric patients will create negative consequence to geriatric patients and patient will receive poor quality care from their caregivers. A cross sectional, desc1iptive survey was can·ied out to determine the Psychological distress and its associated factors among caregivers of geriatric patients in Hospital USM. In total 212 caregivers were successfully approaches at Hospital USM. Subjects was randomly selected that fits with inclusion criteria. Data was statistically analysed using SPSS software version 22.0. Statistical significant was considered at p value < 0.05. Majority of the subjects have low psychological distress (60.4 %) and remaining is the high psychological distress (39.6%). There were significant associations between age p < 0.00 I, marital status p = 0.007 and level of education p = < 0.00 I with psychological distress among caregiver of geriatric patients in Hospital USM. Gender p = 0.049 and economic status p = 0.12 were no significant association with psychological distress among caregiver or geriatric patients in Hospital USM. Moreover, researcher also found that there were significant association between age and the selected factors of stressor to the caregivers (physical health).
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author Razali, Nor Hazirah Mohd
author_facet Razali, Nor Hazirah Mohd
author_sort Razali, Nor Hazirah Mohd
title Psychological distress and its associated factors among caregivers of geriatric patients in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (Hospital USM)
title_short Psychological distress and its associated factors among caregivers of geriatric patients in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (Hospital USM)
title_full Psychological distress and its associated factors among caregivers of geriatric patients in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (Hospital USM)
title_fullStr Psychological distress and its associated factors among caregivers of geriatric patients in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (Hospital USM)
title_full_unstemmed Psychological distress and its associated factors among caregivers of geriatric patients in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (Hospital USM)
title_sort psychological distress and its associated factors among caregivers of geriatric patients in hospital universiti sains malaysia (hospital usm)
publisher Pusat Pengajian Sains Kesihatan, Universiti Sains Malaysia
publishDate 2015
url http://eprints.usm.my/57988/1/NOR%20HAZIRAH%20BINTI%20MOHD%20RAZALI-24%20pages.pdf
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