Abstract
Bacground: Caregivers of chronic diseases patients have an important role in emergency and disaster preparedness. However, the lack of understanding of the relation of the caregiver’s burden, dimension of quality of life, and disaster preparedness for personal caregivers with chronic kidney disease. Aim: This study aimed to examine caregivers' burden, dimension of quality of life, and disaster preparedness of personal caregivers with chronic kidney disease. Methods: A Cross-sectional study design was adopted in this study. Accidental sample approach was used from January up to April 2024. The Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI), the World Health Organization Quality of Life-Brief Version (WHOQOL-BREF), and the Disaster Preparedness Evaluation Tool Indonesian Version (DPET-I) were used to assess the study variables. Linear regression was used to examine caregivers' burden, dimension of quality of life and, disaster preparedness of family caregivers of chronic kidney diseases patients. Results: Sixty family caregivers were included in this study with a family caregiver mean aged 51.8 years old. Sixty percent are male family caregivers. There were significant factors such as caregiver burden (β=0.45; p=0.008) and social dimension of the quality of life (β=0.19; p=0.04) for disaster preparedness of family caregivers with chronic kidney disease. Conclusions: The caregiver’s burden and the social dimension of quality of life confirmed the factor associated with disaster preparedness of family caregivers with chronic kidney disease. Burden care and, social dimension of quality-of-life management for caregivers and, including family caregivers for the education of disaster preparedness are recommended to increase disaster preparedness of family caregivers with chronic kidney disease.
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