Development of the Roles for Psychiatric Patients Care among Family Caregivers and Partnership Networks in the Community

Abstract

This action research aimed to develop the role of psychiatric patients care among family caregivers and partnership networks in the community. Data were collected during September 2013 to October 2015. The participants consisted of 3 family caregivers, 13 persons from partnership networks in the community, and 5 health care providers. All participants were purposively selected based on their availability and willingness to particite in the study. The study tools were questionnaires on demographics data questionnaire, psychiatric patients care knowledge, and psychiatric patients care skills. The quality of tools was reviewed by three experts. The results showed that: (1) the family caregivers were the physically deficit due to elder age and personnel disease, (2) the psychiatric patients took medicine intermittently or not taking the medicine. The family caregiver had high level of knowledge (66.67%), and the partnership network in the community had also a high level of knowledge (84.62%). The family caregivers had a high level of skills of patient care (100.00%), and the high level of skills (92.32%) was observed in the partnership networks in the community as well.