Evaluación de la efectividad de una estrategia de intervención sobre el síndrome de sobrecarga en cuidadores de personas con discapacidad grave en el centro de salud, Catamayo

Abstract

Abstract: Overload syndrome is a state of physical and mental exhaustion in people who continuously care for dependent persons. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention strategy aimed at overload syndrome in caregivers of patients with disabilities in Catamayo, quasi-experimental study, with 105 subjects, applying the Zarit test, the data were processed in SPSS, and in Excel for the representation of tables and graphs, representing data in frequency as a percentage. Activities such as videoconferences, workshops and recreational activities were carried out. To evaluate effectiveness, analytical statistics were used to compare categorical variables using Student's t-test. At the beginning, all caregivers presented overload, mostly moderate, predominantly female, between 20 and 64 years of age, primary education and mother's kinship. Post-intervention, intense overload was reduced from 70.5% to 52.4%, moderate overload from 70.5% to 52.4%, and 37.1% had no overload, with a Student's t-test significance of 0.000. The implementation of the intervention strategy proved to be effective.