Family-centered empowerment program on self-efficacy, quality of life and daily activity in patients with COVID-19

Abstract

Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become the most important challenge in the world healthcare system today. We investigated the effect of a family-centered empowerment program on the self-efficacy and quality of life daily activity level of patients with COVID-19. Methods A quasi-experimental study on 60 patients with COVID-19 discharged from Shahrekord hospitals was performed. For the intervention group, family-based empowerment training was performed, which included three training sessions for patient caregivers, and for the control group, only routine discharge training was performed. all patients fulfill questionaries’ include World Health Organization (WHO) quality of life, daily activities and Sherer self-efficacy before and three months after the study. data were analyzed by SPSS/21 with chi-square, ANOVA and Pearson tests. Results The results of a recent study showed that family-centered empowerment program in patients leads to improved quality of life (p = 0.001) and also a significant change in the level of daily activity in the intervention group compared to the control group (p = 0.001 but there was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of self-efficacy after three months. Conclusion In line with the results of a recent study, studies have shown that the empowerment program for patients' family caregivers can increase patient participation and daily activity level and overall quality of life by increasing their participation in patient care. It is recommended that this program be included in day-to-day care by nurses and patient caregivers in their training programs.

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