Aspectos psicológicos da qualidade de vida de cuidadores de idosos: uma revisão integrativa

Flesch, Letícia Décimo; Batistoni, Samila Sathler Tavares; Néri, Anita Liberalesso; Cachioni, Meire

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“…Factors such as lack of social support, low schooling and less access to health services are conditions present in the context of social vulnerability, which can cause worsening health conditions and, consequently, make them weakened (22) . Worsened physical health is related to lower levels of psychological well-being, decreased positive affection, reduced satisfaction of individuals who provide care and, consequently, worsened quality of life (23) .…”

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Frailty, depression, and quality of life: a study with elderly caregivers

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Objective: to analyze the relationship between frailty, depressive symptoms, and quality of life of elderly caregivers of other elderly living in high social vulnerability. Methods: a descriptive, correlational and cross-sectional study conducted with 40 elderly caregivers. A questionnaire to characterize elderly caregivers, the Fried frailty phenotype, the Geriatric Depression Scale (to screen depressive symptoms) and the Short-Form 6 Dimension (to assess quality of life) were used. For data analysis, Student’s t-test, ANOVA, Pearson’s χ2 and Fisher’s exact test were used. Results: most were pre-frail (52.5%) and had no evidence of depressive symptoms (57.5%). They presented, on average, a score of 0.76 (±0.1) in relation to quality of life. Statistical significance was observed between the average scores of quality of life with depressive symptoms (p=0.012) and frailty level (p=0.004). Conclusion: frail elderly caregivers with depressive symptoms had a worse perception of quality of life.

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Frailty, depression, and quality of life: a study with elderly caregivers

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“…Recent research with family caregivers reveals that experiences of burden, stress, loneliness (5) , depressive symptoms and physical health impairment (6) are common in this context. These feelings are understandable, since many of them do not receive help from other people to carry out the task of caring, suffering a reduction of time for themselves, besides isolating themselves socially (5,7) .…”

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Elderly caregivers of the elderly: frailty, loneliness and depressive symptoms

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Objective: to investigate the association between frailty, loneliness and depressive symptoms of elderly caregivers. Method: a cross - sectional study carried out with 341 elderly caregivers enrolled in Family Health Units of a city in the countryside of São Paulo State. The interviews were domiciliary and included questionnaire for characterization of the caregiver, Fried’s frailty phenotype, family APGAR (family functionality), Geriatric Depression Scale (depressive symptoms) and item 3 of the Herth Hope Scale (loneliness). Logistic regression was used to analyze the association between depressive symptoms and solitude (independent variables), and frailty and pre-frailty (dependent variables). Results: there was an association between frailty, loneliness and depressive symptoms. Elderly caregivers had increased odds of 158% presenting pre-frailty, and 360% of frailty. Elderly caregivers with depressive symptoms had an increased chance of 242% of presenting fragility. Conclusion: elderly and lonely caregivers with depressive symptoms are more likely to be frail and pre-frail.

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“…It has 19 items in Likert format (never = 0, occasionally = 1, almost always = 2 and always = 3), with a total score ranging from 0 to 57 20 . The scale has undergone semantic-cultural validation and validation of its construct, which is based on a structure composed of two factors, the first of which brings together items from the self-realization and pleasure domains and the second which includes items from the control and autonomy domains generated by confirmatory factorial analyzes 20,21 .…”

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Quality of life of elderly people who care for other elderly people with neurological diseases

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Delfino

Batistoni

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Rev. bras. geriatr. gerontol.

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Objective: to investigate the relationships between the perceived quality of life of elderly people who care for other elderly people with neurological diseases (dementia and strokes) and the gender, age and caregiver burden, diagnosis, functional dependence, and cognitive status of the care recipient. Method: 75 caregivers aged over 60 years were interviewed using the Quality of Life Scale (CASP-19) and Zarit Burden Interview. The levels of physical vulnerability of the elderly were identified through the Lawton and Brody questionnaires and the Katz scale and the cognitive assessment of elderly care recipients was assessed with the Clinical Dementia Rating. The data were analyzed by chi-squared test (for comparison of categorical variables), Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis U tests (for comparison of continuous variables). To study the associations between variables, univariate logistic regression analysis was performed, followed by multivariate logistic regression analysis. Results: the age, gender of the caregiver, type of neurological condition, and physical and cognitive functioning of the care recipient did not statistically influence the quality of life of the caregiver. Elderly caregivers with higher levels of burden (≥29) were 11.4 times more likely to have a worse quality of life score (CI: 3.16-36.77; p <0.001). Conclusion: the quality of life of the elderly caregiver is negatively influenced by the burden involved in caring for another elderly person. Identifying the negative emotional aspects of caregivers that negatively affect their quality of life should be considered a target for intervention by health teams.

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Aspectos psicológicos da qualidade de vida de cuidadores de idosos: uma revisão integrativa

Cited by 17 publications

References 45 publications

Frailty, depression, and quality of life: a study with elderly caregivers

Frailty, depression, and quality of life: a study with elderly caregivers

Elderly caregivers of the elderly: frailty, loneliness and depressive symptoms

Quality of life of elderly people who care for other elderly people with neurological diseases

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