Coping Strategies, Self-Efficacy, and Perception Among Family Caregivers for Post-Stroke Survivors in Indonesia

• Main Authors: Vione Deisi Oktavina Sumakul, -, Hari Basuki Notobroto, -, Shrimarti Rukmini Devy, -
• Format: Article PeerReviewed
• Language: English; English; English
• Published: Malaysian Public Health Physicians' Association 2022
• Subjects: R Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.unair.ac.id/124823/1/C31_Artikel.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/124823/2/C31_Turnitin.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/124823/3/C31_Validasi.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/124823/; https://doi.org/10.37268/mjphm/vol.22/no.1/art.1253
• Institution: Universitas Airlangga

Family caregivers experience stress and burden while caring for post-stroke survivors. Coping strategies are needed to deal with the stress, especially problem emotional-focused coping. The stress adaptation model states that coping was influenced by self-efficacy. Meanwhile, ABC Hill model explained that perception also had effects on coping. The purpose of this study was to analyze factors that affected coping among family caregivers for post-stroke survivors, especially selfefficacy and caregiver perception. This study used cross-sectional design and also used self-report questionnaire. It was conducted from October 2020 – April 2021. Sample of this study was family members who take care the family member with post-stroke, and the post-stroke survivors already post hospitalized between 6 months to 3 years. Total sample was 200 family caregivers in 7 health care centers, Tomohon City, Indonesia. We used PLS to estimate the hypothesized fit with the data. T statistic was used to include or exclude the hypotheses (t-statistic >1.96). All path coefficients were significant. Self-efficacy had a positive effect on problem emotional-focused coping (β= 0.177; t-value= 0.030, R2=0.078). In addition, the caregiver perception had a positive effect on problem emotional-focused coping (β= 0.188, t-value = 2.248, R2=0.175). Managing self-efficacy and perception among caregivers are needed to improve problem emotional-focused coping.