Caregivers' knowledge and skills: which reality?
Teixeira, M.; Pinto, J.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 146: 835-836
2009
ISSN/ISBN: 0926-9630 PMID: 19593008 Document Number: 633049
The study is taking place in the Orthopaedic ward in Matosinhos Local Health Care Unit and its aim is to assess informal caregivers' knowledge and skills in the case of patients dependent in self-care. The information is being gathered through an interview with closed questions to sixty caregivers at the time of discharge concerning existing knowledge and skills; a second interview is then carried out later during the first nursing appointment in the hospital, only this time concerning information sources that the caregivers used to address deficits in knowledge and skills shown at the time of discharge.