Abstract:
This study aimed to assess knowledge, attitudes, and practices of long term care for the elderly among caregivers and to identify association between socio-demographic factors, knowledge, attitudes, and practices of long term care for the elderly among caregivers in Sisaket province.
A cross sectional descriptive study with a self-administered questionnaire was conducted among 209 caregivers in Sisaket province from March to July 2018. Analysis of the variables was done using univariate and bivariate at 95% confident interval by SPSS Version 16.
The result founded out of 209 caregivers, majority of them (93.8%) were female, whereas 6.2% were male. Twenty-three percent of caregiver are relatives with the elderly in their responsibility. The Majority of respondents had a high level of knowledge in elderly care (90%), 80.4% were having neutral attitude towards elderly care in long term care and 53.6 % had the moderate practice level in long term care. For association between variables found that number of home bound, caregivers’ relationship with elderly and attitude level were significantly associated with practices of long term care for the elderly among caregivers (p-value <0.05).
