Calidad de vida y sobrecarga en el cuidador primario de niños con discapacidad intelectual en Cuenca

Abstract

The present research is focused on the relation between quality of life levels and primary caregiver burden, following a quantitative approach and a non-experimental research with a correlational analysis. The sample consisted in 116 primary caregivers of children with intellectual disability, chosen according to convenience sampling, 102 of them were women and 14 men, in an age range between 21 and 72 years. The WHOQOL-BREF scale that measures the quality of life and the Zarit scale for overload in the caregivers were used for this study, as well as a sociodemographic record to characterize the sample. There is evidence of a trend towards the average in quality of life in its four domains, as well as a balanced distribution between absence of burden, slight burden and intense burden in the study population. There is a moderate inverse relationship between the quality of psychological, social and environmental life with respect to overload and a slight relation, between physical quality of life and caregiver’s burden.