Profese online 2008, 1(2):124-135 | DOI: 10.5507/pol.2008.012

FAMILY CARE IN DYING RELATIVE

Radka Šerfelová, Jana Němcová
Department of Nursing, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Work is orientated in processing family problems in caring of terminally sick member of family. Our goal was to find out, how they perceive this strain situation and follow up what they coping strategies in care of terminally ill member of family are used. For our research we used standardized questionnaire Coping Strategies Inventory (CSI). Following analyses receives entry we have found out, that familiar member at frequents make use of reception coping strategy bearing on emotion (strategy social support) and reception problem - solving strategies (strategy cognitional rescheduling, strategy problem solution). Women oftener than not make use of care of dying patient emotional strategies than men.

Keywords: family and significant others, coping strategies, paliative nursing care

Published: September 2008  Show citation

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Šerfelová, R., & Němcová, J. (2008). FAMILY CARE IN DYING RELATIVE. Profese Online, 1(2), 124-135. doi: 10.5507/pol.2008.012
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