Resilience of family caregivers of elderly with Alzheimer

Resilience is the capacity that people have to cope positively with adversities. A cross-sectional, quantitative study, that aimed to assess factors associated with the resilience of family caregivers of elderly with Alzheimer’s disease. Sixty-six caregivers composed the sample, who were accompanied...

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Autores: Manzini, Carlene Souza Silva, Vale, Francisco Assis Carvalho
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG)
Repositorio:Revista Eletrônica de Enfermagem
Idioma:portugués
inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistas.ufg.br:article/37035
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ufg.br/fen/article/view/37035
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Resilience
Psychological
Alzheimer Disease
Caregivers
Dementia
Family
Resiliência Psicológica
Doença de Alzheimer
Cuidadores
Demência
Família
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Sumario:Resilience is the capacity that people have to cope positively with adversities. A cross-sectional, quantitative study, that aimed to assess factors associated with the resilience of family caregivers of elderly with Alzheimer’s disease. Sixty-six caregivers composed the sample, who were accompanied in a neurology ambulatory. Most caregivers presented moderate resilience. Linear regression showed that some factors interfered with caregivers’ resilience, being those: overload, the increment of days dedicated to caregiving, the level of kinship daughter-in-law/son-in-law or spouse, and practice of other activities besides caregiving. The findings can be useful in care-related areas, once we identified variables interfering in resilience, and those can be worked and improved to benefit the caregiver and the patient.