Informal caregiver training: the role of nurses in the disease management process

• Autor(a) principal: Martins, Rosa
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Santos, Cristina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/gestaoedesenvolvimento.2020.9468

The current sociodemographic changes and the increasing number of dependent people in the household, imply changes in health policies, where Informal Caregivers (IC) assume an important role as allies of the health team. Nurses are central elements in the training of ICs to exercise this function. Objective: To identify nurses' interventions in the home context in order to empower the Person and Informal Caregivers in the disease management process.Methodology: An integrative literature review using the PICO methodology (Population, Intervention / Issue Of Interest, Comparison) Intervention Or Comparison Group, Outcome After establishing the inclusion, exclusion and analysis criteria of the researchers, six primary studies were selected using the search engines: PubMed; The Cochrane Library; PEDro and Institutional Repositories. Different combinations with descriptors rehabilitation; home care; nurse; caregivers, which were combined using the Boolean expressions AND and OR, in Portuguese and English.Results: Nurses' interventions with ICs focus mainly on: training the person and the caregiver to the performance of daily life activities, in iden identification of architectural barriers and proposals to eliminate them, maintaining a safe environment and monitoring the condition of the person with limitations. Conclusion: There is evidence that nurses' interventions contribute to a better effectiveness in training the person / informal caregiver in the process of self-management of the disease, with improvement of the person's autonomy and consequent health gains.