Síndrome de sobrecarga en cuidadores de personas con discapacidad y su relación con la funcionalidad familiar, de la Parroquia Zurmi, Nangaritza-2022

Abstract

Approximately in 70% of the cases, people with disabilities are cared for by family members, and in 80% it is women who provide this care, mainly in advanced ages; this role is assumed by will, necessity or obligation, without receiving training and without having experience. These people not only assume responsibility for the care, but also for the decisions that involve the well-being and the coverage of the basic needs of the subject of care. Objective: To analyze the overload syndrome in caregivers of people with disabilities and its relationship with family functionality, from the Zurmi parish, Nangaritza-2022. Methodology: Quantitative analytical and cross-sectional study, 60 families caring for people with disabilities from the Zurmi parish, the Zarit survey was applied, family APGAR information was collected in a data collection form, said data was processed in the SPSS statistical program. Results: 53.3% resulted in intense overload; 13.3% presented a slight overload; a smaller percentage presented serious dysfunction with 21.7% and 31.7% were located within a functional family; there is an association between the degree of disability and suffering from caregiver overload syndrome (p=0.002; PR= 1.44); there is an association between the caregiver overload syndrome and family dysfunction (p=0.00; PR= 5.33). Conclusion: In this investigation it was possible to know that the degree of disability is associated with family functionality and caregiver overload, constituting a multifactorial phenomenon of interest in the field of community nursing.