Síndrome de sobrecarga en los cuidadores de personas con discapacidad en el centro de Salud Miraflores, Loja.

Abstract

Abstract: The overload, includes a state of exhaustion, both physical, emotional and social of the person, which affects their daily life, where caring implies protecting life and promote their development. The current work seeks to know the presence of overload, in caregivers of people with disabilities, from the Miraflores Loja Health Center, this It is a cross-sectional descriptive study, with 30 participants, where the Test of Zarit, the data was processed in the EPI INFO 7.2.5 program and Excel, for the representation of tables and graphs, showing data in frequency as in percentage, thus evaluating the descriptive statistics. The overload, showed prevalence in the sex female, housewives, primary and secondary education in equal proportion, relationship of mothers followed by children, marital status married, time dedicated to care prevailing between 2 to 10 years, type of physical disability and degree of itself, the complete and very serious one predominated. In conclusion, caring for a human being with disabilities, over time generates in the person who performs said work, the caregiver overload syndrome.