STROKE'S EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL INFLUENCE ON PATIENT-FAMILY CAREGIVER: A CASE STUDY OF UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT TEACHING HOSPITAL, CHOBA

Abstract

The study sought to investigate stroke's emotional and social influence on patient-family caregiver:  A case study of University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Choba. The study employed a descriptive survey method and a convenience sampling to select 298 participants. The questionnaire served as the instrument for data collection. Mean and standard deviation, as well as descriptive statistics, were used for the quantitative research to organize and assess the descriptive data, and simple regression was carried out when it was necessary to test the offered hypotheses. Findings reveals that all the isolated items recorded mean rating ranging from 3.46 to 3.87 which were above the cut-off mark of 2.50, thus, indicating that there is of emotion expressed by the affected towards stroke affluence caregivers. Also negative emotions expressed by affected patients is a significant conjecturer of stroke (F-value of the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) obtained from the regression table was F = 102.165 and the sig. value of .000 (or p<.05). it was concluded that the level of turmoil experienced by the spouse was far more than that of the caretakers or the victims.