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- Title
Burden and psychological symptoms on informal caregivers of the elderly in the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Authors
de Oliveira da Silva, Giuliana Duarte; Martins, Gabriela; Aparecida da Rocha, Luana; Teixeira Machado, Mariane; Pott Junior, Henrique; Martins Gratão, Aline Cristina
- Abstract
Objective: To evaluate the burden and psychological symptoms of informal caregivers of the elderly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: Cross-sectional study with 50 caregivers from the Gerontology Outpatient Clinic in the interior of São Paulo, evaluated in 2021 via teleconsultation by the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the Zarit-Brief Burden Interview. Poisson’s multivariate regression was applied to the two instruments scores according to the set of characteristics of the participants. Results: Psychological symptoms were highlighted in caregivers with longer time in exercise (p=0.01; p=0.001) and who lived in the same environment with the elderly (p=0.04; p=0.02). Burden was associated with age (p<0.001) and living with the elderly (p=0.001). Conclusion: There is a need for interventions that attenuate psychological symptoms and burden in older caregivers, who live with the elderly and have been working for a longer time.
- Subjects
CROSS-sectional method; MULTIPLE regression analysis; PSYCHOLOGICAL vulnerability; GERIATRICS; BURDEN of care; PSYCHOLOGY of caregivers; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; MENTAL depression; RESEARCH funding; QUALITY of life; ANXIETY; SOCIAL distancing; DATA analysis software; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; COVID-19 pandemic; OLD age
- Publication
Revista Gaucha de Enfermagem, 2022, Vol 43, p1
- ISSN
0102-6933
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/1983-1447.2022.20220163.en