Frecuencia y características asociadas al síndrome del cuidador quemado en FASEC, Cuenca 2024

Abstract

Background: Burned-out caregiver syndrome, is defined as a set of physical and psychological symptoms experienced by people who are constantly engaged in the care of family members or loved ones who have some chronic illness, disability or dependency. Objective: To establish the frequency and associated characteristics of Burnt Caregiver Syndrome among caregivers of patients attended at FASEC, Cuenca. Method: A quantitative, observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out at the Fundación al Servicio del Enfermo de Cáncer (FASEC), with palliative care patients according to the inclusion criteria and with prior informed consent. The information was tabulated and processed with descriptive statistics in the SPSS24 program. Results: it was found that there is a predominance of female sex 70% in relation to male sex 30%, with an average age of 46 years, residence in an urban area, catholic religion, the most frequent relationship was children with 30%, the participants have higher education in 48.3% of the cases. Of the caregivers, 36.7% had no overload; 23.3% had slight overload and a significant 40.0% had intense overload, of whom 18 were informal caregivers and 6 were formal caregivers. Conclusion: the study shows that burned-out caregiver syndrome among FASEC caregivers has a presence of 63% which underlines a need to implement support strategies.