Volume 15, Issue 3 (June 2017)                   Nursing and Midwifery Journal 2017, 15(3): 187-198 | Back to browse issues page

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1- MSc in nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Iran
2- Associate Professor of Nursing, Mother and Child Obesity Research Center, Urmia University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Urmia, Iran (Corresponding Author) , hemmatma@yahoo.com
3- Assistant Professor of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Iran
4- Candidate of PhD in Statistics, Tarbiat Moddares University, Iran
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Background & Aims: According to the development of chronic diseases, including chronic renal failure and the appearance of physical and mental problems that occurs to them during the period of disease and Treatment process, they require a person to take care of them. Caregiver that he/she is a family member of a patient in the care process may be faced with many problems that eventually led to the emergence of burnout in it gets. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of care centered group discussion on the caregiver burden of patients undergoing hemodialysis. Materials & Methods: This study was a randomized clinical trial. Participant of this study contain 70 caregivers of patients undergoing hemodialysis in educational therapeutic centers in Urmia. Caregivers selected and allocated randomly in two groups of intervention (group discussion) and control. Demographic and caregiver burden questionnaire completed by caregiver before the intervention. This program consists of 6 sessions of group discussion during 6 weeks. Two weeks later of intervention the caregiver burden of questionnaire will be completed by caregiver in intervention and control groups. At next the data obtained from questionnaire analysis of descriptive and analytic statistics. Results: Results showed that there was no significant difference between the study and control groups before intervention in the mean scores of burnout and its dimensions (p>0.05.). But after the intervention there was significant difference in the mean scores of burnout and its dimensions between intervention and control groups (p
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Type of Study: Research | Subject: پرستاری

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