Sobrecarga en cuidadores informales de adultos mayores en el Ecuador

Abstract

Abstract: This Research "Overload on informal caregivers of older adults in Ecuador"; seeks to identify the work overload in the informal elderly caregivers, located in the city center of Cuenca during the period 2019-2020. It was made with a non-probabilistic accessibility sample and a snowball sampling, with the participation of 20 older adults and their 20 informal caregivers; The following scientific instruments were applied to each one: Sociodemographic and labor questionnaire Ad-hoc, Zarit caregiver burden interview, Barthel index, GHQ-12 General Health Questionnaire, Duke UNC 11 Functional Social Support Questionnaire, Brief-COPE 28, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and Pfeiffer Short Portable Mental State Questionnaire. The methods used were descriptive, analytical-synthetic, inductive - deductive, Likert scaling and the statistical method. Finally, the research concludes that 90% of caregivers hadn t overload and also identifies mitigating factors on the burden perceived by the caregiver, the most relevant were: socioeconomic situation, dependency level and cognitive decline of the elderly.