Abstract Objective: to evaluate the effect of nursing home care interventions on the quality of life in family caregivers of aged stroke survivors. Method: a Randomized Clinical Trial, blinded for outcome evaluation. Forty-eighty family caregivers of aged stroke survivors participated in the study. The...
Objective: to analyze the effect of parental mutuality on the quality of life related to the health of mothers who care for children with special health needs. Method: an observational, analytical and cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach. The following instruments were applied to 181 careg...
Objective: to analyze the psychometric properties of the adapted version of Bakas Caregiving Outcome Scale for Brazilian Portuguese. Method: this is a cross-sectional methodological study conducted with 151 informal caregivers of people with cerebral vascular accident sequelae enrolled in Family Health ...
ABSTRACT Objective: to know the care provided by family caregivers of children submitted to hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Method: the Grounded Theory was used as methodology. The study comprised four sample groups, comprising 36 caregivers. Data were collected by semi-structured interviews a...
ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the association between the caring ability of family caregivers of patients on cancer treatment with the demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients, as well as the sociodemographic characteristics of the caregivers and of the care provided. Methods: A cross-...
Factores de Edad,
Cuidadores/psicología,
Cuidadores/estadística & datos numéricos,
Estudios Transversales,
Neoplasias del Sistema Digestivo/terapia,
Conocimientos, Actitudes y Práctica en Salud,
Conducta de Ayuda,
Factores Sexuales,
Factores Socioeconómicos,
Neoplasias Urológicas/terapia
ABSTRACT Objective: to derive psychometric indicators of construct validity and internal consistence of the Zarit Burden Interview scale for caregivers, describing associations of the scale with metrics related to care demands, coping strategies and depression in aged caregivers. Method: crosscutting d...
Adaptación Psicológica,
Factores de Edad,
Cuidadores/psicología,
Costo de Enfermedad,
Estudios Transversales,
Depresión/diagnóstico,
Depresión/etiología,
Autoevaluación Diagnóstica,
Entrevistas como Asunto,
Psicometría,
Estrés Psicológico/diagnóstico,
Estrés Psicológico/etiología
ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the relationship between the distress of the family caregiver and the presence of neuropsychiatric symptoms in elderly patients with Alzheimer's disease or mixed dementia. Method: a descriptive, cross-sectional study conducted in the Geriatric and Dementias Clinic of a ...
Introduction: Cancer is a disease of high incidence among children and the patients need a caregiver during the treatment. Aim: to evaluate: the burden of care and quality of life (QOL) of caregivers of children/adolescents with cancer during chemotherapy treatment and relate them to each other and to th...
