Cuidadores domiciliares

Currently, Home Assistance is consolidated as one of the practices found at the current health system aiming to offer humanized and better qualified service to the patients and their relatives.Hence, home caregiving is characterized by the complementarity of the roles developed by the patient, family, health professionals and institutions.The present research has the objective of knowing the emotional characteristics and the context of the home caregiver work, as well as the meaning of taking care for these individuals.Ten home caregivers, subdivided in two groups, participated on the study: five caregivers of cancer patients and five caregivers of patients who suffered stroke served by a Home Assistance Program in a hospital from the city of São Paulo.For the data collection, sessions for semi-directed interviews and the application of Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) were used.The interviews were analyzed using the content analysis method, where the observed data were grouped in categories and sub-categories.The results highlight that taking care is a paradoxical experience because the scenario where the caregiving is developed is generally not considered in health actions, although they are determinant for the apprehension of the caregiver"s subjectivity and of what is expected from their tasks.Issues concerning cultural and social aspects such as the gender reinforce the non-sharing of activities among the members of the family, generating overload and physical and emotional fatigue.Although the interviews showed that feelings of weariness, fatigue and exhaustion were constantly approached by the caregivers, in MBI test some of these aspects were not observed.It is concluded that care and caregiving relation is not a simple meeting, in other words, the household is a complex scenario where it is almost impossible to homogenize health actions and practices

Apprehension · Burnout · Data collection · Emotional exhaustion · Family caregivers · Feeling · Clinical Psychology · Health, Nursing, Elderly Care · Healthcare during COVID-19 Pandemic · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Psychology and Mental Health · Social Psychology

• Cuidando de idosos altamente dependentes na comunidade

  Open Access•Teresinha Mello Da Silveira, Célia Pereira Caldas et al.•Cadernos de Saude Publica•2006

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