THE IMPACT OF CARE- CENTER GROUP DISCUSSION ON HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS CAREGIVER BURNOUT

According to the development of chronic diseases, including chronic renal failure and the appearance of physical and mental problems that occurs to them during the period of disease and Treatment process, they require a person to take care of them. Caregiver that he/she is a family member of a patient in the care process may be faced with many problems that eventually led to the emergence of burnout in it gets. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of care centered group discussion on the caregiver burden of patients undergoing hemodialysis.
This study was a randomized clinical trial. Participant of this study contain 70 caregivers of patients undergoing hemodialysis in educational therapeutic centers in Urmia. Caregivers selected and allocated randomly in two groups of intervention (group discussion) and control. Demographic and caregiver burden questionnaire completed by caregiver before the intervention. This program consists of 6 sessions of group discussion during 6 weeks. Two weeks later of intervention the caregiver burden of questionnaire will be completed by caregiver in intervention and control groups. At next the data obtained from questionnaire analysis of descriptive and analytic statistics.
Results showed that there was no significant difference between the study and control groups before intervention in the mean scores of burnout and its dimensions (p>0.05.). But after the intervention there was significant difference in the mean scores of burnout and its dimensions between intervention and control groups (p The results of this study can be found that training classes such as group discussion had a significant reduction in the severity of caregiver burnout. Therefore it is recommended that in the Health system planning attend to the role of family members in the treatment of these patients also benefit from this training method.