Original Paper
The effect of teaching intervention for the main caregivers with dysphagia patients at home
2003 Volume 7 Issue 1 Pages 19-27
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2003 Volume 7 Issue 1 Pages 19-27
The purpose of the study was to find out whether increasing the main caregiver's knowledge about dysphagia would help them act more effectively in the education of dysphagia rehabilitation．
The subjects for the investigation were 178 patients with a Japanese care insurance rank of 2 or more，living in homes visited by nurses in Shiga Prefecture．The main care givers were divided into two groups at random， after obtaining informed concent (experimental group：14 and control group：13)．The experimental group was educated for dysphagic care for 4 months，and the control group was only observed without education．Outcome variables were symptoms of dysphagia，Barthel Index，SpO2 for the dysphagia patients and the main caregiver's knowledge of dysphagia．
As a result，11 of 14 variables for the knowledge/skill of the main caregivers were increased significantly after the education．
Thus， this suggests that home nurses should offer the knowledge to the main caregiver of dysphagia patients at home．
