The willingness to family care bed service and its influencing factors among the elderly with chronic diseases / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objeetive To investigate the willingness to family care bed service and its influencing factors among the elderly with chronic diseases. Methods A three-stage random sampling method was adopted to carry out face-to-face questionnaire investigation in 652 community elderly patients with chron-ic diseases. Results The willingness to family care bed service was 57.2%.Its influencing factors includ-ed age,educational level,family economic income,activity of daily living,whether or not received treatment within 2 weeks and hospital stay within 1 year,whether or not understood the meaning of family care bed service or received it or similar at home service. Conclusions More than a half of the elderly with chronic diseases were willing to accept family care bed service.The community health service center or hos-pital should attaeh importance to and actively carry out family care bed service.They should enhance propanda work to induct the utilization of family care bed service by edlder people with chronic disease and tackle and satisfy their health requirement.