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Hacia la Promoción de la Salud
Print version ISSN 0121-7577
Abstract
CARRENO-MORENO, Sonia; CHAPARRO-DIAZ, Lorena and PARDO-MORA, Yaira. Fear, stress, knowledge, attitudes and practices in the face of COVID-19 in family caregivers of chronic patients. Hacia promoc. Salud [online]. 2022, vol.27, n.2, pp.118-129. Epub Sep 22, 2022. ISSN 0121-7577. https://doi.org/10.17151/hpsal.2022.27.2.9.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an disproportioned impact in Colombia in terms of incidence and mortality. Family caregivers of people with chronic illness take on long-term care in the home setting amid hospital collapse.
Objective:
To describe, correlate and identify predictor variables of knowledge, attitudes, practices, stress and fear of COVID-19 in family caregivers of people with chronic disease.
Methodology:
A predictive crosssectional study was conducted with 104 family caregivers of people with chronic disease in Bogotá-Colombia. The instruments of characterization, fear, stress, knowledge, attitudes and practices before COVID-19 were applied online in the second semester of 2020.
Results:
A mean of 23.07 (SD = 7.2) was observed in fear, 93.18 (SD = 31.6) in stress, 10.1 (SD = 1.9) in knowledge, 1.34 (SD=0.8) in attitudes and 1.89 (SD=0.3) in practices, which shows that, although knowledge, attitudes and practices have high levels, there is a high level of stress and fear of COVID-19. There is a direct relationship between fear and stress in the face of COVID-19, with worse scores in women and people with a low level of knowledge.
Conclusion:
Training and sustained support is required for family caregivers, who amidst the fear and stress of COVID-19 continue to support the long-term care of chronic patients in the home environment.
Keywords : Fear; psychological stress; knowledge; caregivers; coronavirus infections; pandemics.