IJCRRI Journ Cur Res ReInternational Journal of Current Research and ReviewI Journ Cur Res Re2231-21960975-5241Radiance Research Academy528HealthcareUnderstanding the burden of caring people for patients with a stroke in the subacute and chronic phase in Nepal BimaliInosha)3943This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 20092009This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.

Purpose: To determine the prevalence of caregiving burden among stroke caregivers in the subacute and chronic phase of stroke in Nepal. Methods: Fifty caregivers of subacute and chronic stroke were included in the study. Participants were asked to complete a caregiver strain index form. Results: Stata /MP 13.0 data analysis and statistical software was used to analyze the data. One sample t-test, two sample ttest and Pearson correlation test were used for the analysis. Level of significance __ampersandsignlt;0.05 was considered statistically significant with 95% CI. Among the total participants (caregivers) 16% were male and 84% were female. Out of them 72 % were spouse and 28% were daughter-in-law. The mean Caregivers Strain Index score for female caregivers was marginally greater than that for male caregivers. Caregiver burden was found to be significantly high among both subacute (p= 0.0000) and chronic (p= 0.0000) stroke caregivers. Conclusion: Female caregivers were more than male caregivers with overall Caregiver burden found to be significantly high among subacute and chronic stroke caregivers

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