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- ItemRestrictedAssessing the psychological, social and economic impact of caregiving on caregivers of mentally challenged older patients accessing services at St John of God hospital, Mzuzu(Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, 2020-09-02) Chikopa, FrynessThe topic of the study is to assess the psychological, social and economic impact of caregiving on caregivers of mentally challenged older patients accessing services at St John of God hospital. This will help health professionals to design interventions that will help to address the needs of the caregivers resulting into improved quality care to older clients. PROBLEM Currently, in Malawi there is scarcity of data on studies conducted on psychological, social and economic impact of caregiving on caregivers of mentally challenged patients who are also older persons above 60 years of age. A number of caregivers are affected psychologically, socially and economically due to their role of caregiving this affects quality of care and little is done in managing these effects. Hence the study will help to identify psychological, social and economic challenges that affect the care givers which can inform the development of appropriate strategies. OBJECTIVES The objectives will include; describing the psychosocial and economic impact of caregiving on caregivers of mentally challenged older patients, describing how the psychosocial and economic impact of caregiving on caregivers of mentally challenged older patients affects the quality of care of mentally challenged older patients and documenting recommendations to 02-Sep-2019 7 address psychosocial and economic impact of caregiving on caregivers of mentally challenged older patients. TYPE OF STUDY This is a descriptive qualitative study design. METHODOLOGY The study will be conducted at St John of God Hospital in Mzuzu city. Purposive sampling will be used to select respondents. About 30 caregivers and 10 health care workers will be interviewed. However, the actual sample will depend on the saturation point: a point at which no new information is emerging from the data. The researcher will use in depth interviews. These will be administered to the caregiver and the health care workers who interact with caregivers of the older clients. The questionnaire/ topic guide will have three parts namely; demographic data of the care givers and questions assessing psychosocial and economic impact of caregiving on caregivers and how such impact affects the quality of care provided by caregivers. The other part of the topic guide will assess the health care workers perceptions of the psychosocial and economic impact of caregiving on caregivers. All interviews will be audio recorded. Study population will consists of two groups. First are caregivers of the patients who are aged 60 years and above. The second group will be health care workers who interact with the caregivers in order to assess the health workers perceptions of the psycho-social and economic impact of caregiving on the caregivers. Thematic data analysis will be used. The data will be analysed aided by a computer package called NVIVO 12. Descriptive statistics will be computed and reported for social demographic data. 02-Sep-2019 8 The study limitations will include bias as the study will be conducted at a hospital setting and therefore some participants may not be free to express themselves. Some caregivers may also feel coerced to participate. EXPECTED FINDINGS There will be psychosocial and economic impact of caregiving on caregivers of a mentally challenged older patients accessing services at St John of God hospital. DISSEMINATION Findings of the study will be shared during journal club meetings at St John of God and research conferences. The results will also be shared to COMREC. An article based on the findings will also be published in a peer –reviewed journal.