The Effects of Comprehensive Care Model for Stroke Patients at Home on Personal Well-Being, Role Mastery and Well-Being of Family Relationships in Bandung, Indonesia

Background: The comprehensive care model (CCM) is a program that achieves a healthy transition and facilitates the family in caring for the stroke patients at home.Aim: The present study was performed with aim to examine the effects of the comprehensive care model for stroke patients at home on personal well-being, role mastery, and well-being of family relationships.Method: This quasi-experimental study was conducted in 2018 on 89 stroke patients in Bandung, Indonesia. The participants got CCM program including health education, skill and spiritual support since in the hospital until at home, and after a month they were assessed using personal wellbeing inventory, role function mode, and the brief family relationship scale. The Chronbach’s alpha coefficients of the personal wellbeing, brief family relationship scale, and role function mode were tested for reliability (0.89, 0.89, and 0.77, respectively). Descriptive statistics and an independent t-test were used to analyze the study’s data. p 0.05 was considered statistically significant.Results: The significant differences were found in the overall mean scores of personal wellbeing and role mastery before and after the intervention (p 0.001). There was no significant difference (p=0.078) for well-being (the CCM can maintain the well-being of relationships in a good category.Implications for Practice: The findings of this study revealed that CCM program can be applied for the stroke patients since at hospital to their home.