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PAINEPAN, Beatriz  y  KUHNE, Walter. Chronic stress, coping and health in caregivers of Alzheimer´s disease patients. Summa psicol. UST (En línea) [online]. 2012, vol.9, n.1, pp.5-14. ISSN 0718-0446.

The present study related the caregivers chronic stress and the coping styles with the perceived general health of 300 caregivers of type II Alzheimer´s patients, divided in 220 informal caregivers and 80 non professionals formal caregivers, evaluated at the National centre of the Venezuelan Alzheimer Fundation, in Caracas-Venezuela. Among the most relevant results it was found that the informal caregivers presented higher levels of chronic stress, compared with the non professionals formal caregivers, and this was related with a deterioration of the health status of formers, who specifically presented higher symptons of somatization and anxiety. Regarding the coping styles, it was found that the informal caregivers use significally more emotional coping and less rational and detacthment coping than teh non professionals formal caregivers. Finally, the health indexes are directly related with higer chronic stress, so higher stress is related with higher deterioration and this is particularly true in informal caregivers.

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