El sentimiento de sobrecarga del cuidador familiar de pacientes neurológicos y la relación con sus creencias acerca de la salud del enfermo. = The neurological patients family caregiver´s feeling of burden and the relation with their beliefs about patient´s health.
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- ABSTRACT Objective. The aim of this study is to evaluate the role that family caregiver belief´s have on health status of neurological patients, in relation with the psychological stress model proposed by Lazarus and Folkman. Subjects and Methods. 128 family caregivers were interviewed (35 were attending patients with Traumatic Brain In -jury, 38 to patients with Multiple Sclerosis and 55 patients with Dementia), selected with not random statistical sampling strategy, of accidental type. Cross-sectional comparative descriptive de -sign was applied. A caregiver socio demographic questionnaire, that includes a question about the beliefs of the patient´s health, and the Caregiver Burden Scale of Zarit and Zarit were used. Re -sults. The more negative caregiver’s beliefs are, the more intense are their feeling of burden. Multiple Sclerosis ´s caregivers, who evaluate their own health as poor, when compared with other caregivers; are the ones who experience more intense feelings of burden. Discussion. The variations between these caregiver’s be -liefs, a psychosocial variable external to the psychological stress model, could clarify the variations found in scores on the Care -giver Burden Scale among family caregivers of patients with Trau -matic Brain Injury, Multiple Sclerosis and Dementia.
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RESUMEN
Objetivo. Se intenta evaluar la influencia de las creencias del cui
-dador familiar del estado de salud del paciente neurológico con
Traumatismo Encéfalo Craniano (TEC), Esclerosis Múltiple (EM) o Demencia (D), sobre su sentimiento de sobrecarga, desde el
modelo de estrés psicológico propuesto por Lazarus y Folkman.
Sujetos y Métodos. Fueron entrevistados 128 cuidadores familia
-res (35 asistían a pacientes con TEC, 38 a pacientes con EM y 55
a pacientes con D), seleccionados con la estrategia de muestreo
estadístico no probabilística, de tipo accidental. Diseño descripti
-vo-comparativo, de corte transversal. Fueron aplicados un cues
-tionario de datos sociodemográficos del cuidador, con una pre
-gunta acerca de sus creencias del estado de salud del paciente
y la Escala de Sobrecarga del Cuidador de Zarit y Zarit. Resultados.
Cuanto más negativas las creencias del cuidador aquí estudia
-das, más intensos sus sentimientos de sobrecarga. Los cuidado
-res de pacientes con EM creen, en mayor proporción que los
otros, en un mal estado de salud del enfermo, asociado a senti
-mientos de sobrecarga más intensos. Discusión. Las variaciones
de estas creencias del cuidador esclarecen los diferentes punta
-jes obtenidos por ellos en la Escala de Sobrecarga del Cuidador
de Zarit y Zarit.
ABSTRACT
Objective. The aim of this study is to evaluate the role that family
caregiver belief´s have on health status of neurological patients, in
relation with the psychological stress model proposed by Lazarus
and Folkman. Subjects and Methods. 128 family caregivers were
interviewed (35 were attending patients with Traumatic Brain In
-jury, 38 to patients with Multiple Sclerosis and 55 patients with
Dementia), selected with not random statistical sampling strategy,
of accidental type. Cross-sectional comparative descriptive de
-sign was applied. A caregiver socio demographic questionnaire,
that includes a question about the beliefs of the patient´s health,
and the Caregiver Burden Scale of Zarit and Zarit were used. Re
-sults. The more negative caregiver’s beliefs are, the more intense
are their feeling of burden. Multiple Sclerosis ´s caregivers, who
evaluate their own health as poor, when compared with other
caregivers; are the ones who experience more intense feelings of
burden. Discussion. The variations between these caregiver’s be
-liefs, a psychosocial variable external to the psychological stress
model, could clarify the variations found in scores on the Care
-giver Burden Scale among family caregivers of patients with Trau
-matic Brain Injury, Multiple Sclerosis and Dementia.