Abstract

BENITEZ LAMBERT, Yamilé; RONDON CABRERA, Juan José; ALVAREZ HECHAVARRIA, Elaine  and  SANCHEZ SANCHEZ, Vicente Gonzalo. Educational strategy for female care givers who attend terminally ill relatives . MEDISAN [online]. 2011, vol.15, n.10, pp. 1408-1414. ISSN 1029-3019.

An educational intervention was carried out from July, 2008 to January, 2010 at "Ramóm López Peña" Teaching Polyclinic in Santiago de Cuba in order to apply an effective strategy on hospice care so as to train 24 women in charge of attending the same number of terminally ill family members. Before the training, most of female care givers did not know how to control symptoms of their ill relatives, not even their own stress; they had no psychological training to face the challenge; they had not developed the necessary communicative skills; and most of them were not satisfied with the professional aid received; among other factors. However, the scheduled meetings allowed health workers to offer the required orientation and expert advice to these care givers so they could assume their roles with confidence and security taking into account they had to perform a human task with a lot of responsibility.

Keywords : care giver; family; terminal illness; hospice care; intervention study.

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