Resilience of family caregivers of children and adolescents in treatment of neoplasms and associated factors.

Autor: Silva JSD; Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil., Moraes OF; Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil., Sabin LD; Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil., Almeida FO; Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil., Magnago TSBS; Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Jazyk: English; Portuguese
Zdroj: Revista brasileira de enfermagem [Rev Bras Enferm] 2021 Aug 20; Vol. 74 (6), pp. e20190388. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Aug 20 (Print Publication: 2021).
DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167-2019-0388
Abstrakt: Objectives: analyze the level of resilience of family caregivers of children and adolescents hospitalized for cancer treatment and associated factors.
Methods: cross-sectional study, carried out in 2018, with 62 family caregivers in a university hospital in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The instruments CDRisc-10-Br, SRQ20, PSS-14 and WHOQOL-Bref were used to measure resilience, minor psychological disorders, stress, and quality of life, respectively. Inferential statistics were used.
Results: female caregivers, married, with one child and who practice some predominated religion. They were classified as having a moderate level of resilience (48.4%); with suspicion for minor psychological disorders (45%) and high level of stress (41%). In terms of quality of life, they were satisfied in the Physical, Psychological and Social Relations domains; and dissatisfied in the Environment domain.
Conclusions: there were direct weak to moderate correlations between the level of resilience and quality of life and inversely with stress and minor psychological disorders.
Databáze: MEDLINE