Qualidade de vida e sobrecarga de trabalho de cuidadores do serviço de atenção domiciliar de Goiânia, Goiás

• Autor(a) principal: Guerra, Heloísa Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/3666
• topic: Qualidade de vida; Cuidadores; Assistência domiciliar; Quality of life; Caregivers; Home nursing; CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA

The increase in life expectancy and the decrease in the mortality rate have resulted in changes in the epidemiological profile with the predominance of chronic noncommunicable diseases and global changes in the health care system. Regarding brazilian reality, due to socioeconomic factors of families the role of the caregiver, in general, is generated in the home environment. The caregiver, to assume a role for which usually is not prepared, may suffer with the workload and compromise the life quality. Thus, the aim of this study was to analyze the life quality related to health and workload of caregivers of the users of the Service Home Care (SAD, in Portuguese) in the city of Goiânia- Goiás.This is an analytical cross-sectional study, conducted with caregivers in the households of SAD’s users in Goiânia-GO. For this study were selected caregivers with age equal or above18 years, literate and performing the function as aleading caregiver for at least two months. The data were collected through interviews with application of the tools for the characterization of the caregiver, burden evaluation (ZBI - Zarit Burden Interview ) and evaluation of quality of life related to health - HRQL ( SF -36 - The Medical Outcomes Study 36 - Item Short - Form Health Survey).In these analyses were calculated averages, standard deviation with their corresponding interval of 95% of confidence, and multiple linear regression by the backward selection method and Pearson correlation. The values of P<0.05 were considered significant for all analyzes. Among the 95 interviewed caregivers, the average age was 49,7 years old (±13,0), most of them were female (97,9%), married (57,9%) first-degree relatives or spouse (74,7%), they devoted more than 12 hours a day to caring activity (69.5%), do not benefit from weekly rest (84,2%), had at least one health problem (86,3%) and informally exerted the activity of care (97,9%). In HRQOL evaluation, caregivers had lower average scores for Vitality (39.2) dimension of the SF-36 and in the burden evaluation the average was 33,8.Themain factors associated with decreased HRQL of caregivers were age, health problems such back pain, anxiety and depression and the time they already had in the function of caring. Higher scores of overload evaluated by ZBI were associated with the fact that the caregiver does not have a weekly rest, and present back pain problems and depression. There was a negative and statistically significant correlation between HRQL and work overload for all dimensions of the SF -36, suggesting that the higher the overload, worse the quality of life of caregivers of SAD. It follows that there is impairment in the quality of life of the caregivers of SAD’s users, due to the level of work overload. Given this, it must be observed the need of a higher performance of home care teams, through integral actions with caregivers, in order to lessen the impact of care giving on their health and quality of life.