Sobrecarga en cuidadores informales de adultos mayores en el Cantón Milagro durante el año 2019.

Abstract

Abstract: In this degree work, it had the purpose of specifying the amount of overload in informal caregivers of older adults in Canton Milagro. The methodology used was descriptive, with 20 older adults and 20 informal caregivers interviewed, and the instruments used were: AdHoc questionnaire, caregiver burden interview, CUIDAR, Barthel Index, General Health Questionnaire, Duke Social Support, COPE-28 Inventory, Eysenck Personality and Pfeiffer Mental State Portable Questionnaire. Among the most relevant results was the presence of intense overload in 45% of the population, while 55% presented deterioration in psychological well-being, which is the same as believing that their competence in care is average, even though they score high on extraversion and active coping is one of the most used coping strategies in 3.45. Sixty-five percent of the caregivers stated that they had social support, and as for the older adults, moderate dependence and normal cognitive impairment were the result of the sample, even in these conditions almost half of the caregivers who participated present intense overload.