ANALYSIS OF EDUCATION AND FAMILY INCOME FACTORS ON CAREGIVER BURDEN IN ELDERLY CARE AT COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF PERAK TIMUR
Abstract
Elderly care is an obligation that must be done as a primary form of family support. One of the supports is to make the family a
caregiver of the elderly, but the family does not often carry out this task well due to the factors that exist in the caregiver's self,
such as lack of knowledge due to the low level of caregiver education and lack of family income. The purpose of this research
was to analyse the relationship between educational factors and income towards caregivers burden in elderly care.
The research design used correlational analysis with a cross-sectional approach. Total population was 340 that the samples were
129 samples taken by cluster random sampling. The samples have met the inclusion and exclusion criteria.The ZBI caregiver
burden questionare (Zarit Burden Interview) was used collect data. Data analysis used SPSS 16 with chi square test with a value
ᾳ <0.05.The results of research conducted on caregivers at Community Health Centre in Perak Timur showed that the care giver
burden was mostly medium burder 58.9%, the caregiver was mostly high school education category and most of the income
factor was ≤ 3,000,000,000. The results showed an educational factor value ᾳ > 0.734 and an income factor value ᾳ> 0.148,
which meant there was no relationship between the factors of education and income with the burden of caregiver in elderly
careThere are many other factors that can affect the caregiver's burden such as length of stay, age, gender, family and ethnic
relationships. Based on the chi square analysis test, the length of time being treated has a significant relationship with a value of
ᾳ < 0,044. Since the average length of elderly care in the area at Community Health Centre of Perak Timur region was more
than 2 years. There was no relationship between education and income to the burden of caregivers in caring for the elderly.
Therefore, it was hoped that in further research, the research can be carried out on other variable factors such as the length of
caring for the elderly, gender and family relationships. The health centre in this case government agencies needed to provide
support and assistance to families in elderly care.