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REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE ENFERMAGEM
Volume 73, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ASSOC BRASILEIRA ENFERMAGEM
DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0947
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Caregivers; Frail Elderly; Depression; Quality of Life; Geriatric Nursing
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- Sao Paulo State Research Support Foundation (Fundacao de Amparoa Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo, abbreviated FAPESP) [2014/50104-0, 2018/04980-3]
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Objective: to analyze the relationship between frailty, depressive symptoms, and quality of life of elderly caregivers of other elderly living in high social vulnerability. Methods: a descriptive, correlational and cross-sectional study conducted with 40 elderly caregivers. A questionnaire to characterize elderly caregivers, the Fried frailty phenotype, the Geriatric Depression Scale (to screen depressive symptoms) and the Short-Form 6 Dimension (to assess quality of life) were used. For data analysis, Student's t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's chi(2) and Fisher's exact test were used. Results: most were pre-frail (52.5%) and had no evidence of depressive symptoms (57.5%). They presented, on average, a score of 0.76 (+/- 0.1) in relation to quality of life. Statistical significance was observed between the average scores of quality of life with depressive symptoms (p=0.012) and frailty level (p=0.004). Conclusion: frail elderly caregivers with depressive symptoms had a worse perception of quality of life.
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