استعرض مصدر Determinants of Disabled Elderly Caregivers Burden in Ismailia, Egypt

Determinants of Disabled Elderly Caregivers Burden in Ismailia, Egypt

Med. J. Cairo Univ., Vol. 78, No. 2, March: 31-37, 2010
Determinants of Disabled Elderly Caregivers Burden in Ismailia, Egypt

MOHAMAD MOHAMEDY AWAD, M.D.*; HANAN A. EL GAMMAL, M.D.*; MAGDA T. FAHMY, M.D.** and EMAN IMAM, M.Sc.*

The Departments of Family Medicine*, Neuro-Psychiatry**, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University.

==Abstract==
==Background==
Caring for a physically disabled relative can
be physically and emotionally stressful, placing the caregiver
at heightened risk of illness and chronic disease onset.
Although an abundance of research has focused on the adverse
emotional and social effects of care giving, there have been
few studies of the physical health consequences for this group.
This study aims to assess relationship between care giving
process and disability of the elderly.
==Subjects and Method==
A cross sectional household study
was conducted to assess the burden facing the caregivers of
elderly with functional and cognitive disabilities living in
Ismailia governorate.
Comprehensive sample was conducted, all disabled elderly
were included after assessment of functional disability and
cognitive disability among them. Level of functional disabilities
of elderly was assessed by using the Katz ADL. (Activity Of
Daily Living) scale, and assessment of caregiver burden
through The Zarit Burden Interview.

==Results==
The mean age of the studied elderly was 76.5 ±
9.2 (65-87), 48.9% were females, 38.6% are having chronic
diseases. The mean age of elderly caregiver 37.6 ± 11.5 (15-
76), 78.5% were females, mean care giving hours were 15.6 ±
6.9 (4-24).
According to Katz index of independence in ADL, the
elderly had mild dysfunction in 50.4%, by using the minimental
score about 28.6% of disabled elderly suffer from
cognitive disability with mean mental score was 21.8 ±3.9.
Prevalence of burden among caregivers was 37% with
mean burden score was 22. The study showed that statistically
significant positive correlation between burden score and age
of the elderly, number of chronic diseases, and caregiver age,
and statistically significant negative correlation between
burden score and ADL score, MMSE score, but no statistically
significance between burden score care-giving hours/d, and
income.

==Conclusion==
Home care of chronically disabled persons has received considerable attention in recent years, Caregivers often spend a disproportionate amount of their emotional, physical, or financial resources on the person requiring care. As time and illness progress, the responsibility may be met with decreasing enthusiasm, regardless of emotional relationships, and thus leads to burnout and increased caregiver burden.

==Key Words==
Disabled elderly caregivers burden – ADL – MMSE. 


==رابط==
*erepository.cu.edu.eg/index.php/MJCU/article/view/624/606

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