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Estudos e Pesquisas em Psicologia

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MARONESI, Letícia Carrillo; SILVA, Nilson Rogério da; CANTU, Silvana de Oliveira  e  SANTOS, Andréa Rizzo dos. Indicators of stress overload in formal and informal caregivers of oncology patients. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2014, vol.14, n.3, pp.877-892. ISSN 1808-4281.

The present study aimed to identify the presence of indicators of stress, levels of stress and overload with the formal and informal caregivers of cancer patients. Participated in the survey 33 caregivers of cancer patients in total, 16 formal and 17 informal. To collect data, we used: 1) Roadmap for characterization of participants; 2) Inventory of Stress Symptoms Lipp - ISSL and 3) Protocol Zarit Burden Interview - ZBT. The results revealed that 43 % of informal carers were in the resistance phase, 29 % in the burnout stage, 14 % at the stage of exhaustion and almost 14 % in the alert phase. Formal caregivers 25 % are in the exhaustion phase and 75 % in the resistance. The overload has also performed on a larger scale in informal than formal caregivers, 47 % to 18,7 % charge respectively. However, the results revealed no statistically significant difference between groups for the incidence of stress but indicated a difference against overloading pointing out that professional caregivers in the incidence is lower. The results suggest the need to implement support for informal and formal caregivers programs, develop coping strategies, handling the situations of overload and stress, aiming to better quality of life for the caregiver, and consequently for the patient who is receiving care.

Palavras-chave : stress; burden on caregivers; cancer patients.

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