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- Title
Caring for the carer: quality of life and burden of female caregivers.
- Authors
de Oliveira Araújo, Michelly Guedes; Machado Dutra, Michelinne Oliveira; Leite Freitas, Carla Carolina Silva; Gomes Guedes, Tatiane; Stélio de Souza, Francisco; Santos Baptista, Rosilene
- Abstract
Objective: To assess the quality of life and the burden of female caregivers. Method: Descriptive, cross-sectional, quantitative study carried out with 224 informal caregivers from March to July 2016. Three instruments were used: a characterization form for the caregiver, the WHOQOL-Bref questionnaire and the Zarit Burden Interview. The following tests were used: Cronbach's Alpha, Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Kruskal-Wallis, Spearman and Mann-Whitney. Results: The mean age of caregivers was 51.8 years with a standard deviation of 13.7. They were predominantly married, had a low income and low level of education, were first-degree relatives, had been providing care for one to five years and presented some pathology. The associations of quality of life that presented statistical significance were: income, marital status, number of people living with the caregiver and time of care. Conclusion: The burden was negatively correlated with QOL, that is, the greater the burden, the more impaired will be the life of these caregivers.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; CONFIDENCE intervals; STATISTICAL correlation; FAMILIES; INCOME; MARITAL status; RESEARCH methodology; QUALITY of life; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICS; WOMEN'S health; DATA analysis; QUANTITATIVE research; EDUCATIONAL attainment; BURDEN of care; CAREGIVER attitudes; CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software; MANN Whitney U Test; KRUSKAL-Wallis Test
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2019, Vol 72, Issue 3, p728
- ISSN
0034-7167
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0334