RT Journal Article
T1 Educational interventions by nurses in caregivers with their elderly patients at home
A1 Rojas Ocaña, María Jesús
A1 Araujo Hernández, Miriam
A1 Romero Castillo, Rocío
A1 García Navarro, Esperanza Begoña
AB Introduction: The home is the natural setting for the development of informal care. The workthat nurses are required to develop in this context (the carer/the elderly dependent/the home)focuses on training and educational activities to assist these two groups, such as demonstratingcare activities to help dependent seniors, instruction in self-care techniques and teaching strategiesfor the use of human and material resources. Aims: This article analyzes care educationinterventions performed by nurses, and the factors that facilitate, or limit, health care training.Methodological approach: This is a qualitative, descriptive study designed to be flexible andopenly analytical in its approach to the research problem and the dynamic nature of the homeenvironment. Triangulation of the methodological techniques and study subjects was applied.Results: Nursing interventions related to professional attitudes, such as encouraging communicationand facilitating teaching; communication interventions in health education andcounseling; and technical interventions aimed at improving access to health informationand support for the informal carer. Lack of will, the advanced age of the carer, emotional stateand work overload are factors that undermine care instruction, which if reversed, would becomelearning facilitators. The lack of time and resources in the home are the major limiting factorson care teaching, according to nurses. Evidence from our study suggests that care in the home isconsidered a key primary health care strategy, one in which nurses play a significant role.
PB Cambridge University Press
SN 1463-4236
SN 1477-1128 (electrónico)
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20355
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20355
LA eng
NO Rojas-Ocaña, M. J., Araujo-Hernández, M., Romero-Castillo, R., & García Navarro, E. B. (2021). Educational interventions by nurses in caregivers with their elderly patients at home. In Primary Health Care Research & Development (Vol. 22). Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/s1463423621000086
NO Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Huelva / CBUA
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026