Special section: Community health and wellbeing

Support for volunteer caregivers and its influence on the quality of community home-based care in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

Published in: Journal of Psychology in Africa
Volume 25 , issue 2 , 2015 , pages: 104–109

DOI: 10.1080/14330237.2015.1021509

Author(s): David Morton Department of Nursing Science, South Africa , Thoko Mayekiso Vice Chancellor's Office, University of Mpumalanga, South Africa , Peter Cunningham Department of Sociology and Anthropology, South Africa

Keywords: community home-based care , quality care , support , volunteers

Download full text Get new issue alerts

Abstract

The factors influencing the quality of community home-based care (CHBC) were explored from the perspective of volunteer caregivers, their clients and key informants in a South African Eastern Cape district. Focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews were used to collect data on the perceptions of quality of care from 32 volunteer caregivers, 32 clients and 12 other key informants. The survey data were descriptively analyzed and the qualitative data thematically coded. The results showed that supervisor support, peer support, community support and family support of the volunteer caregivers influenced their ability to provide quality CHBC to their clients.

« Indigenizing counselling valuing the afterlife with the Igbo of south eastern Nigeria: a case for ino-uwa based intervention

Resourcing single parents in a South African community rural setting: an exploratory study »