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| Title |
Association between the functional capacity of dependant elderly people and the burden of family caregivers
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| Published in |
Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem, March 2015
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| DOI | 10.1590/1983-1447.2015.01.49163 |
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| Authors |
Ana Cláudia Fuhrmann, Carla Cristiane Becker Kottwitz Bierhals, Naiana Oliveira dos Santos, Lisiane Manganelli Girardi Paskulin |
| Abstract |
The aim of this study was to characterize dependent elderly people and their main family caregivers and the association between functional capacity of the elderly and the burden of caregivers. This cross-sectional study was conducted with 112 elderly people and caregivers connected to a primary care service in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The applied instruments related to care and socioeconomic variables were Physical and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (PADL and IADL) and the Burden Interview. The Spearman correlation coefficient was also used. Average age of the elderly individuals in this study was 81.41 years, while the average score for PADL was 10.36 and 6.25 for IADL. Of the 112 elderly individuals, 71.4% had severe dependence. Among caregivers, 75% were women, 61.6% were the sons or daughters with an average age of 57.98 and an average burden of 29.53, which is equivalent to moderate burden. Results revealed a significant correlation between functional capacity of the elderly and caregiver burden. It was verified that the higher the dependence of elderly people, the greater the burden of caregivers. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 48 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Researcher | 9 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 12% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 4 | 8% |
| Professor | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 7 | 14% |
| Unknown | 12 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 12 | 24% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 10 | 20% |
| Computer Science | 3 | 6% |
| Psychology | 2 | 4% |
| Neuroscience | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 6 | 12% |
| Unknown | 14 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 June 2015.
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#16,721,208
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#87
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#155,126
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Outputs of similar age from Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem
#2
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