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Empowering Caregivers in Hemiplegia Care: A Quasi-Experimental Study for Enhancing Care-Competency Through Structured Educational Development Approach

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Background: Caregiver competency for hemiplegic patients would be enhanced and sustained with structured educational approach with step-by-step competence confirmation and telehealth communication for follow-up. Aim: Evaluate the effectiveness of a structured educational development approach in enhancing the care competency among caregivers for patients with hemiplegia. Research Design: Quasi-experimental (one group pretest-posttest). Sample & Setting: 70 caregivers, purposively sampled, at neuropsychiatric and neurosurgery inpatient and outpatient units in Minia University Hospital, Egypt. Study Tools: 1) Structured interview questionnaire 2) Knowledge and practice competency tools (≥ 80% is cutoff competency score). Method: Pretest data was collected. Three educational sessions administered, each requiring competency before proceeding. A fourth session tested the third one, followed by two months of telehealth support, then a post-test. Results: Caregivers were mostly aged 30-39, female, married, housewives, with basic education, and reside in rural areas. Post-intervention, caregiver competency improved significantly: overall care competency rose from 11.4% to 75.7%; knowledge from 18.5% to 72.9%; practice from 21.4% to 81.4%. Knowledge scores increased from 13.5 ± 5.48 to 20.6 ± 2.75, practice scores from 37.4 ± 9.30 to 66.8 ± 4.5, and total care competency from 50.9 ± 14.78 to 86.4 ± 7.25. Effectiveness was 36.5% ± 16.46, with significant t-test values (p <0.001). Conclusion: The structured educational approach significantly increased the caregiver care competency for hemiplegic patients. Recommendations: Implement structured educational programs with telehealth follow-up for sustainable caregiver competency in inpatient discharge plans and outpatient services.

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10.21608/ejnsr.2024.307604.1386

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caregiver, Care competency, Hemiplegia, quasi-experimental, Structured educational development approach

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Mohamed

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Malek

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Gamal Noaman

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Community Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Minia University, Egypt.

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Amal

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Mohammed

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Hashem

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Community Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Minia University, Egypt.

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Fatma

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Mahrous

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Mostafa

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Medical-Surgical Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Ain shams University, Egypt

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dr.fatma_mostafa@yahoo.com

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Heba

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Mostafa

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Abdel-Azem

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Medical Surgical Nursing ,faculty of nursing ,Al-Azhar University ,Egypt

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hebaabdel-azem.61@azhar.edu.eg

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Sherif

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Nesnawy

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Medical-Surgical Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Minia University, Egypt.

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sherifnesnawy@mu.edu.eg

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0000-0002-6436-9240

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Mohammed

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Ibrahim

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Ibrahim Touni

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Community Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Badr University in Assiut, Egypt.

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5

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2

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2024-09-01

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2024-07-27

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2024-09-01

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59

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2682-4574

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International Egyptian Journal of Nursing Sciences and Research

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Empowering Caregivers in Hemiplegia Care: A Quasi-Experimental Study for Enhancing Care-Competency Through Structured Educational Development Approach

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25 Dec 2024