Síndrome de sobrecarga del cuidador del adulto mayor y su relación con factores asociados. Gualaceo, 2016

Abstract

Background: attend an older adult can be a stressor to overload the person performing this work. Overload syndrome is characterized by insidious and multisintomatic with medical, economic, family and social impact on the caregiver. Objective: to determine the prevalence of caregiver burden the elderly and factors associated syndrome. Methodology: analytical cross-sectional study, which evaluated 239 elderly caregivers, the Gualaceo parish, during the period March-June 2016. The instruments used were validated by pilot survey test retest reliability (Cronbach's alpha 0.948, Pearson's r 0.935). The data were tabulated in the SPSS Statistics software V 20. He characterized the population using descriptive statistics and to determine association, bivariate and multivariate analysis was done. Ethical standards and informed consent were applied. Results: the prevalence of overload syndrome was 7.95%. The average age of caregivers was 46.19 years (± 14.08) and older adults 80.81 years (± 9.05). There was no statistically significant association between the syndrome and the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of caregivers and older adults. Factors associated with overload were: time care (p 0.002), daily hours dedicated to this activity (PR 7.70 IC95%: 2.83–20.92; p 0.000); dependence (PR 4.60 IC95%: 1.74–12.12; p 0.000) of elderly and family dysfunction (PR 4.44 IC95%: 1.69–11.62; p 0.000). Conclusion: the prevalence of the syndrome was low and was associated with the time and number of daily hours dedicated to the care, elderly dependency and family dysfunction