Correlation of family functionality and burden of informal caregivers of hospitalized older adults

Autor: Marcos Soares de Arruda, Marcela Naiara Graciani Fumagale Macedo, Ana Carolina Ottaviani, Daniella Pires Nunes, Juliana de Fátima Zacarin Cardoso, Kelly Cristina dos Santos, Tábatta Renata Pereira de Brito, Ariene Angelini dos Santos-Orlandi
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem, Vol 43 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1983-1447
DOI: 10.1590/1983-1447.2022.20210081.en
Popis: ABSTRACT Aim to analyze the relationship between family functionality and burden of informal caregivers of hospitalized older people. Methods this is a cross-sectional study conducted with 98 informal caregivers of hospitalized older people in an inpatient unit of a large hospital in São Carlos, São Paulo. For data collection were used questionnaires to sociodemographic and care context characterization, to evaluate burden and family functionality. Descriptive analyzes and Spearman’s correlation coefficient were used. Results female caregivers predominated, who took care of their parents and had no training. Approximately 59.8% of caregivers had good family functionality and 49.5% scored for mild to moderate burden. There was a negative correlation, moderate magnitude, between family functionality and burden (p
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