Qualidade de vida e sobrecarga de trabalho em cuidadores de idosos em seguimento ambulatorial

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Déborah Cristina de
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Carvalho, Gisele Souza Fontanini de, Stella, Florindo [UNESP], Higa, Celina Matiko Hori, D'Elboux, Maria José
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng; por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0104-07072011000200003; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/72355
• topic: Aged; Caregivers; Quality of life

We evaluated the quality of life related to health and work overloads among 126 caregivers to patients at two geriatric outpatient clinics of a university hospital, as well as the association between overloads and demographic and clinical variables, using an exploratory, descriptive, cross sectional and quantitative approach. The Zarit Burden Interview, a socio-demographic and clinical characterization instrument, was used to assess perceived workloads and the Medical Outcomes Study Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) was used to assess quality of life related of health. Descriptive, comparative, correlative, and multivariate data analyses were carried out. There was significant difference between two outpatient caregiver workloads; all socio-demographic aspects and variables related to care were associated to worsening at least one dimension of the SF-36; frequent illnesses among caregivers were related to a worsening of their quality of life related to health, demonstrating the wear experienced by caregivers to the elderly in these health care units.