ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Choochart Deeromram

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: Caring Behaviors of Family Caregivers, Caring Needs and Caring perceptions of Addicted Adolescents

แหล่งที่มา/Source: The 2nd International Conference on Mental Health and Substance Dependence 2003. Page 38. (19-21 August 2003 The Ambassador Hotel, Bangkok Thailand)

รายละเอียด / Details:

The existence of substance abuse is a serious problem especially in adolescents. Adolescents and the resource of power to create the progression of the country. If these great human resources become addicted to illicit substances, the future of the nation is at risk. The purpose of his descriptive research was to study the caring behaviors of family caregivers, the caring needs and caring perceptions of addicted adolescents. The conceptual framework of this study was derived from the Watson Transpersonal Caring Theory. The population was non-psychotic addicted adolescents and their significant family caregivers at the Khonkaen Drug Dependence Treatment center. The sample size of 263 was selected from each population. Data were collected by self-administered questionnaires namely Caring Behaviors questionnaire. Caring Needs and Caring perceptions Questionnaire, which were modified by the researcher: A panel of seven experts in the area of substance abuse did the face validity. The reliability results using Alpha Cronbach's Coefficient of these questionnaires were .93,.94 and .92 respectively. Each questionnaire consists of 36 items with a four-point rating scale. The data were analyzed using Descriptive statistics, One-way Analysis of Variance, Krusakal-Wallis H test, Mann-Whitney U test, Independent-test, and Paired t-test. The findings of this study revealed that the mean score of caring behaviors of family caregivers, caring needs and caring perceptions of addicted adolescents were 3.29, 3.097, and 2.942 respectively Family caregivers, who differ in age groups, did not behave differently in caring behaviors whereas gender, education, and occupation groups were statistically significant differences (p‹.01). Addicted adolescents, who differ in education substance abuse duration, and admission groups, were not significantly different in caring needs. The differences between caring behaviors of the family caregivers and caring needs. The differences between caring behaviors of the family caregivers and caring perceptions of the addicted adolescents, caring behaviors of the family caregivers and caring perceptions of the addicted adolescents, and caring needs and caring perceptions of the addicted adolescents were statistically significant differences (p<.01). As for the implications of this study, it could be used as a guideline for health care providers to develop the Caring Training Program for encouraging congruency in caring behaviors, caring needs, and caring perceptions between family caregivers and addicted patients.

Keywords: caring behaviors, caring needs, caring perceptions, family caregivers. addicted adolescents

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 2003

Address: Faculty of Nursing, Mahasarakharm University

Code: 0000910

ISSN/ISBN: -

Country of publication: Thailand.

Language: English.

Category: Paper.

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