WORKLOAD AND ANXIETY IN CAREGIVERS OF PEOPLE WITH SEVERE DISABILITIES

Abstract

The main objective is to identify the workload and its relationship to anxiety in caregivers of people with severe disabilities in the canton Azogues. A quantitative, cross-cutting, descriptive and co-relational study was conducted with 150 caregivers of people with severe disabilities. A questionnaire was given zarit's caregiver overload scale and Goldberg's anxiety scale. The profile of the population studied was characterized by: average age 41 years, female sex (89%), degree of mother kinship (59%), married marital status (59%), primary education (79%), rural residence (73%), care for people with severe intellectual disabilities (64,7 %). 38.6% had labor overload and 100% revealed anxiety, medium and high level at 78.7%. High ratio 0.630 (p<0.001) was found between labor overload and anxiety.

Keywords: Load of work; anxiety; family caregiver; people with disabilities.

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