Factors That Affect Family Caregiver's Health Literacy in Elderly Population

Running Head: EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE
Topic: What are the factors that affect family caregiver's health literacy in elderly
population?

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Table of Content
Justification of application of EBP Process 2
Answerable Question Breakdown 4
Search strategy Protocol 5
Reference list 9
Appendices 7

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Justification of application of EBP Process
Evidence-based practice is crucial in nursing practice for the safety of patient care. In
particular elderly patient reported to be more sensitive in terms of health-related issues (Schenker
& Costa, 2019). Elderly age is more vulnerable to disease as physical, emotional, and
psychological decline occur in this period. Due to the decline in physical, emotional and
psychological functioning, elderly people need more care in terms of medication, diagnosis and
treatment modalities. Unfortunately, the health illiteracy among family caregiver is prevalent.
Therefore the health status of the elderly is in danger (Eriksen, & Frandsen, 2018). According to
literature, multiple factors adversely impact the family caregiver health literacy. The caregiver
health literacy is very significant in promoting health status among elderly people (Schenker, &
Costa, 2019). In contrast health illiteracy among family caregiver of elderly population adversely
affect the health status. The current study intends to find out why health literacy is common
among family caregivers and what factors affect caregiver health literacy in the elderly
population.
To identify the factors, the evidence-based practice is very effective, as it provides an
accurate and clear picture of already published researches regarding the targeted phenomenon.
For promoting health literacy among family caregiver, the nurses play a crucial role. Therefore
the knowledge of a nurse should be sufficient prior to implying any health care facility to their
patients (Richards, Hilli, Pentecost, Goodwin, & Frost, 2018). The literature provides
sufficient evidence about the factor related to illiteracy of family caregiver's (Rehaman, 2014).
Therefore, the primary obligation of the nurse is to facilitate family caregiver about the illness,
medication and relevant precautions. In order to provide health care literacy to the family
members of the patients, the nurses need to understand the factors that adversely affect the

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literacy of the caregivers. The effective way to identify the factors affecting the health literacy of
family caregiver, the evidence-based practice is significant (Correa-de-Araujo, 2016). Through
an online search, the already published literature is helpful.
The expertise of nurse in implying the evidence-based practice can help the patient as
well as a caregiver to promote health stats. Therefore to answer any question, the registered
nurse must go through literature, and the evidence-based practice provides a systematic way to
identify the answer of any research question (Reckrey et al., 2019). The current study intends to
highlight the steps to identify the answer to the research question following an evidence-based
practice. The aim of the research is not merely to highlight the steps for demonstrating the step to
identify the factors associated with family caregiver health literacy, but to illustrate the ways
how to conduct evidence-based research to find out the relevant answer.
Table 1
PICO component The context of the current
study
P (Population) Elderly Population
I (Issue or intervention) Health Literacy
C (Comparator used) None applied.
O (Outcome of
interest)
Factors
The PICO strategy is effective to search the related answer and validated or approved by
Health Evidence TM (Health Evidence, 2013). The current study broke down the research
question to find out the relevant article. Similarly, any research question can be answered by
breaking it down into PICO component.