Effect of Empowerment Program on Positioning Practice for Bedridden Elders Among Village Health Volunteers
Keywords:
Empowerment Program, Positioning Practice, Bedridden Elders, Village Health VolunteersAbstract
Older persons who are bedbound for prolonged periods can experience various complications. Proper positioning is essential to prevent complications and enhance comfortable among these persons. This quasi-experimental study aimed to investigate the effect of an empowerment program on the positioning of bedbound older persons by village health volunteers. The one group pretest-posttest design was used. The purposive sample composed of 19 village health volunteers who responsible for bedbound older persons in Kut Bak district, Sakon Nakhon province. The sample participated in the empowerment program developed by the researcher basing on Gibson's empowerment framework as well as literature review. The observation from developed by the research was used to collect data about bed positioning perform by the participants of the study. The duration of the study was eight weeks. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and the comparison of the mean scores, before and after receiving the empowerment program, using a paired t-test.
The findings indicated that:
The mean score for positioning was significantly higher after the program than before at p<.001 level. The study showed that the empowerment program helped the village health volunteers to become confident, be aware of self-efficacy, and to position bedbound older persons correctly. The study also demonstrated use of the empowerment program among actual cases in the community.
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