@MASTERSTHESIS{ 2022:1603553682,
 	title = {Avaliação da Sobrecarga de Cuidadores Familiares de Pacientes em Tratamento Quimioterápico},
 	year = {2022},
 	url = "https://tedebc.ufma.br/jspui/handle/tede/tede/4489",
 	abstract = "Family caregivers play an important role when caring for a cancer patient undergoing 
 chemotherapy, experiencing the new task of caring, several changes in their daily lives, in 
 addition to physical and emotional overload and the possibility of becoming ill. This study 
 aimed to assess the burden of family caregivers of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. 
 This is a cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach. The sample consisted of 134 family 
 caregivers, of both sexes, aged 18 years or older. 02 (two) questionnaires were applied, the first 
 with sociodemographic, socioeconomic and clinical data and the second the ZARIT BURDEN 
 INTERVIEW scale. In the statistical analysis, the IBM SPSS Statistics 22 (2013) program was 
 used. Questions related to caregivers' workload were assessed using the non-parametric Mann 
 Whitney and Kruskall Wallis tests. The survey results showed that 77.6% of caregivers were 
 female, 32.1% aged between 30 and 39 years, 56% were married, 49.9% were children of 
 patients, 34.3% had completed high school , 43.3% had some paid activity, 48.5% had no 
 employment relationship, 39.6% had an individual income of 1 to 2 minimum wages and 56.7% 
 were not economically active in the family., 40.3% of patients underwent chemotherapy for 1 
 to 3 months and 38.8% of family caregivers provided care for the same period and for more 
 than 12 hours a day, 56% received help from another person in care, 65.7% did not have health 
 problems, the problems The most frequent health concerns were systemic arterial hypertension 
 36.9% and diabetes mellitus 21.7%, 76.1% of caregivers reported having comorbidities before 
 becoming a caregiver. Among caregivers, 44.8% did not present overload, 41.8% mild to 
 moderate overload, 12.7% moderate to severe overload and 0.7% presented severe overload. It 
 is concluded that the sociodemographic characteristics, gender and degree of kinship were 
 directly associated with the level of burden, caregivers who had to leave their professional 
 activities felt more burdened and caregivers who had comorbidities after the exercise of care 
 and took medications also showed a greater burden. The help received for caring is associated 
 with the level of burden of family caregivers, with support and the distribution of tasks among 
 family members being determinant for reducing these levels. These results reinforce the need 
 for nursing actions aimed at the caregiver, aiming at reducing the burden, providing the 
 caregiver with the opportunity to provide better quality care for their family member.",
 	publisher = {Universidade Federal do Maranhão},
 	scholl = {PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM ENFERMAGEM/CCBS},
 	note = {DEPARTAMENTO DE ENFERMAGEM/CCBS}
}