Martínez RL

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: The care and attention of centenarian adults requires the functions of a primary caregiver, who, being a member of the family or not, assumes that responsibility. It has wide repercussions on the health and well-being of the one who assumes the caring role as well as supposes a situation of stress that increases the risk of suffering emotional difficulties.
Objective: To determine levels of anxiety, depression and overload in primary caregivers of centenarian adults.
Methods: A non-experimental cross-sectional design with exploratory-descriptive scope. The selection of the sample was non-probabilistic nor directed, is conformed by 30 main caregivers of centenarian adults. The main techniques applied were interviews, the trait-state anxiety inventory (IDARE), the trait-state depression inventory (IDERE) and Zarit's scale.
Results: A predominance of the female gender in the exercise of the role was identified in the caregivers with a range between 53 and 78 years old. It were determined average levels of anxiety as a trait and state, although no significant differences were found between the high and medium levels of anxiety as a state. There were high levels of depression as a condition in the caregivers, but no significant differences between the high, medium and low levels of depression as a trait. In this study sample, the 86.7% of caregivers does not presents work overload in relation to the exercise of their role.
Conclusions: Primary caregivers are not perceived as overloaded and experience average levels of anxiety in specific and general situations. The levels of the depression trait do not present significant differences whereas the depression state showed high levels.