Effectiveness of Interdisciplinary Homecare on Quality of Life of Long-Term Care Patients

Abstract

Background : Long-term care is the provision of assistance and support to patients who are unable to care for themselves for a long time, often because the effects of such treatment can affect the patient's quality of life to decrease so as to improve in providing long term care term care, collaboration between several health workers is needed which is carried out on a homecare basis. Objective: Investigate effect of interdisciplinary homecare on the quality of life of long term care patients. Method: this study used quantitative research and the method used was experimental. The sampling technique used purposive sampling of 15 respondents in Yogyakarta area. The data analysis technique were used the Wilcoxon test. Results: the results of this study state that there is an interdisciplinary homecare effect on the quality of life of long-term care patients (p=0.001 r= -3426B). Conclusions: there was an effect of interdisciplinary homecare have positive impact for quality of life for patients who need long term care. It is hoped that patients and families can add to their understanding, and further researchers can develop homogeneous respondents from different disease points and use a control group for comparison.