Caregiver knowledge on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among COPD patient in outpatient clinic, Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia

• Main Author: Mazlan, Nurul Farhana
• Format: Monograph
• Language: English
• Published: Pusat Pengajian Sains Kesihatan, Universiti Sains Malaysia 2021
• Subjects: R Medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.usm.my/55893/1/NURUL%20FARHANA%20MAZLAN-24%20pages.pdf; http://eprints.usm.my/55893/
• Institution: Universiti Sains Malaysia

The involvement of caregiver in direct care of COPD patients is important as they help to assist them with the activity of daily living. For enabling the patients to improve their condition, caregivers need to be knowledgeable in facing patients with COPD. The general objective of the study was to determine caregiver knowledge on COPD among COPD patients in outpatient clinic Hospital USM. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 41 caregivers recruited using a simple random method. Demographic data of the COPD caregivers were analyzed by SPSS version 27.0 using descriptive statistics. Mann Whitney test was used to examine differences between gender and caregiver knowledge on COPD. Differences between the level of education with caregiver knowledge on COPD were examined using the Kruskal Wallis test. Spearman correlation test was used to measure the relationship between age and years of experience in taking care of COPD patients with caregiver knowledge on COPD. The findings of this study show that caregiver knowledge on COPD categorized as better knowledge (M: 27.22). Besides, there is no significant association between gender with caregiver knowledge on COPD (p=0.658). However, there is significant difference between level of education with caregiver knowledge on COPD (p=0.010). Moreover, there is a very weak, negative correlation between age and caregiver knowledge on COPD (r = -0.07, p = 0.647), as well as a very weak, positive correlation between years of experience in taking care of COPD patients with caregiver knowledge on COPD (r = 0.21, p = 0.195). In conclusion,