Abstract
People in Thailand receiving palliative care at home can have complex needs and this means that the family caregiver can have a high burden of care. To assess the impact of a nursing care activities for a home-based palliative care programme (NHBPC) on the care burden among family caregivers and the care quality in older people at the palliative care stage. This quasi-experimental repeated measure study was used to investigate the effects of the nursing care activities for a NHBPC programme. The mean caregiving burden and care quality scores in the experimental and control groups at post-test and 2-weeks follow-up showed significant differences (p<.05). In addition, improvement was not seen in the control group. The NHBPC programme significantly improved caregiving burden and quality of care in Thai older people and their family caregiver. This confirms that the NHBPC programme plays a crucial role in helping them to improve quality of life.
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