The effect of a family need based program on caregivers burden of leukemia patients.
Introduction: Nowadays, most of the chronic cares (e.g. Cancer) are done at homes and by family caregivers. Given the diverse problems of the disease and its chronic progression, most of the patients and their families are not aware of the coping ways and do not receive proper supporting services, and the family of cancer patients because of their care roles, meet burden.Therefore it is essential that proper and effective intervention to decrease burden.Research Methodology :This study is based on a clinical trial in two groups and three stages. After demanding the recommendation letter from the department of Nursing and Midwifery of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, the researcher referred to the management of hospital to present the purpose of the study and to start the sampling. The Seyed Al Shohada University Hospital (related to Isfahan University of Medical Sciences) are selected as scope of the study for the data collection. The data collection process is done from the family members who are the main caregivers and are responsible for all supports. The samples were selected randomly and then categorized into two groups named as experimental and control. The methodology of the study is quantitative approach and the survey study (two part questionnaire) is selected for the data collection. Sample of the Study the all family members of leukemia patients including male and female who refer to hospital and meet the criteria of the study. Sample of the study: The sample size of the study is 32 persons which is the result of consultation with the specialists of statistics. The data collection instrument in this study is two questionnaires which the first one includes two parts (A and B). Part A is related to demographic information of caregiver including (sex, age, marital status, education level, employment, relation to the patient, and the duration of caregiving) and the patient including (age, sex, marital status, education level, employment, duration of sickness). Part B contains the questions regarding the evaluation of burden of ZARIT caregiver which includes 22 items which the scales of each item are as follows: • Never: 0, The lowest score of healthcare • Seldom:1 • Usually :2• and Sometimes burden is 3 • Always :4 . 0 which means there is no burden. The highest score is 88 which means the highest rate of burden. The score between 61-88 means severe burden.The score between 31-60 is the average burden. The score under 30 is the slight burden. Finally data will analyzed with SPSS (version 20).