Sick Elderly Clinical Trial
The purpose of this study is to determine the priorities of the elderly in the community about end-of-life decisions. To check the perception of the disease in the elderly in the community.
This study is descriptive adapters which examines the relationship between illness
perception and preferences of end of life decisions in the elderly in the community.
Population and sample: The target population will be elderly and healthy community elderly
population was accessible due to a special branch of the club together in the center of the
country. Sample to be a sample of convenience. The study will include 88 seniors aged 65 and
over to get the power of 0.80 and alfa 0.05, Tools: The study used three tools.
- The first tool is a questionnaire on demographic and clinical details
- The second tool questionnaire the Long term support program (LTSP)
- The third tool is a questionnaire perception of the disease Revised Illness Perceptions
Questionnaire (IPQR)
The research process:
Investigator will present the proposal to the Commissioner Fund hospitals and request
approval for the study. After receiving approval from the director Department of Health fund
the hospital will make data collection phase HMO, days and hours of reception. Interrogator
he is to partition the questionnaires and will be present when filling out the
questionnaires to help, if and created a situation of lack of understanding of the
questionnaires. Scholar, came to the population for the Disabled arriving at the clinic
visit, and introduce himself and the subject of research. investigator will indicate
questionnaire is anonymous.
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Observational Model: Ecologic or Community, Time Perspective: Prospective