Conhecimento prático e sobrecarga na vida de cuidadores de idosos com demência
| Autor: | Fatima Adriana D Almeida Gazetta, Lisiane Alves dos Santos Messias, Pedro Marco Karan Barbosa, Zamir Calamita |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | Scientia Medica. 28:30569 |
| ISSN: | 1980-6108 1806-5562 |
| DOI: | 10.15448/1980-6108.2018.3.30569 |
| Popis: | AIMS: To analyze the level of knowledge and the life overload of caregivers of elderly people with dementia, correlating these variables with sociodemographic aspects and type of relationship between caregiver and elderly.METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted between 2016 and 2017, with caregivers of elderly people with dementia seen at the Geriatrics outpatient clinic of the Hospital das Clínicas, Medical School of Marília, in Marília / SP, Brazil. The study included caregivers who accompanied the elderly to the consultations and participated in an important way in their care, comprising family caregivers and contractors without kinship ties. The data were collected through two instruments: the first was the Caregiven Burden Scale questionnaire, which evaluates the subjective impact of overload on the caregiver, and whose overall score can vary from 01 (lower overload) to 04 (higher overload). The second was a questionnaire prepared by the authors, which evaluated the caregiver's usual knowledge about the practice of care, whose scores ranged from zero (no correct answers) to 08 (all correct answers). The distribution curve of the variables was analyzed by the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, the correlations were analyzed by the Spearman test and the comparison of the means used the Analysis of Variance. The results were considered statistically significant when p |
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