Programa de educación para la salud a los cuidadores principales de personas con Alzheimer: proyecto de investigación

Urbina González, Nagore
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At the moment, dementia affects about 50 million people worldwide, and Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, accounting for between 60% and 70% of cases. This disease not only affects people with AD, but also their main caregivers, thus developing an overload that triggers physical and psychological problems. For this reason, there are various education programs where skills and strategies are worked on in order to help cope with and minimize this overload. Objectives: General objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of a health education program for the main caregivers of people with Alzheimer's. Specific objectives: 1) To study the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of Alzheimer's patients participating in the study. 2) To study the socio-demographic characteristics of the participating caregivers of Alzheimer's patients. 3) To describe the knowledge about Alzheimer's disease and the care of the caregivers before and after the application of the program. 4) To identify the level of overload of the main caregiver before and after the program. 5) To study the quality of life perceived by Alzheimer's caregivers before and after the program. Methodology It is an almost experimental design that will be carried out between the months of April and May 2022. The study population is the main caregivers of people with Alzheimer's who attend the CAP in Can Gibert del Pla, where the sample will be chosen from a non-probabilistic convenience sampling. Socio- demographic variables of the affected person and the caregiver, clinical variables related to the disease, and in the caregiver’s knowledge about this disease, caregiver burden using the Zarit scale and quality of life using Quality of Life in Alzheimer's disease (QOL-AD) will be studied to patients and caregivers. The caregiver program consists of teaching patient care strategies and providing information on how to bear the burden of the caregiver. The study will respect the ethical principles of research in people. The data will be statistically analyzed with the SPSS 25.0 program. The results of the study will allow us to know the effectiveness of the program in terms of knowledge and skills, including whether the burden of the main caregiver decreases, and consequently, if it helps to improve the quality of life of the person with AD ​
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