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Revista Salud Uninorte
Print version ISSN 0120-5552On-line version ISSN 2011-7531
Abstract
LARA VASQUEZ, CLAUDIA VERÓNICA et al. Perceived stress and social support in informal caregivers of the elderly. Salud, Barranquilla [online]. 2023, vol.39, n.2, pp.601-616. Epub Apr 09, 2024. ISSN 0120-5552. https://doi.org/10.14482/sun.39.02.932.489.
Objective:
Prediction of perceived stress in relation to perceived social support in IC of PAM.
Methods:
Cross-sectional correlational predictive study conducted in second and third level hospitals in Saltillo, Coahuila (Mexico). A total of 150 IC participated in the period December 2021-March 2022 with non-probabilistic intentional sampling, applying the instruments to obtain information that was analyzed with descriptive statistics and inferential statistical analysis.
Results:
The age of the IC is M=51.7 years; 74.7 % are women; mean years of schooling is 10.93; they are employed (50.6 %); married/free union (66.7 %); daughter of the PAM (46 %); they have a mean of 32.13 months of care, M=13 hours a day and M=4 days a week; 80.7 % have help for care. The PAM have an average age of 72 years old, 64.7 % are women and 66.7 % have a chronic disease. The IC have a medium level of perceived social support (43.3 %) and a medium level of stress (87.3 %). The correlation shows that the lower the social support the higher the stress (r=-0.485, p<0.001). The level of perceived social support predicted the level of perceived stress by 21.4 %.
Conclusion:
Social support plays an important role both in patients who present stress as it has the effect of increasing emotional well-being, stability and control that impacts both their health and the performance of care as it decreases the likelihood of negative effects that the caregiver may present.
Keywords : emotional stress; social support; caregivers; elderly.