Investigating the effect of continuous care model on social health status of family caregivers in hospitalized patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery

Chronic patient care causes some problems, including pressure or burden of care, reducing the time for routine activities and self care, also causes compatibility decline in deal with stress and disorders of physical and mental health, emotional, social and financial prosperity of caregivers. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of continuous care model on social health status of family caregivers in patients underwent coronary artery bypass surgeries.
This study was one-group clinical trial research, the samples consisted 48 family caregiver of the patients underwent coronary artery bypass graft surgeries, who were selected using purposive sampling method. Data collection tools included the standard questionnaire Data collection tool was Novak and Guest caring burden inventory (CBI) s as well as demographic questionnaire, which was measured at the baseline and 8 weeks after intervention. Data were analyzed using descriptive and analytic statistic (paired t-test, and covariance analysis) with SPSS version 16.
The mean score of caring burden realated to the social health status before intervention was 3.86±6.11 and after intervention was 1.81±2.33. In examining five dimensions burden of care, continuous care model had an impact on all aspects of the caring burden and it led to the reduction of the burden of care in all aspects. So, it had a significant decrease in the social health status (p Implementation of continuous care model as the intervention of cheaper and available, can be an effective step inreducing the burden of care of the patients with coronary artery disease in health status of social.