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Resumen La sobrecarga es el resultado psicológico de combinaciones emocionales, físicas y sociales que surge al cuidar una persona enferma, especialmente si es de Alzheimer. El ingreso salarial puede repercutir en la sobrecarga, ya que hacerse responsable de un paciente genera gastos que la familia debe soportar. Este estudio correlaciona sobrecarga e ingreso salarial en una muestra por conveniencia de 100 cuidadores informales de la ciudad de Bucaramanga, aplicando la escala de sobrecarga Zarit (Martín, Salvadó, Nadal, Miji, Rico, Sanz & Taussing, 1996) y la ficha de datos sociodemográficos (Cerquera, Granados & Buitrago, 2012). Los resultados muestran que si bien la mayoría de cuidadores devengan más del salario mínimo colombiano vigente, así mismo presentan sobrecarga, y ya que no se ha establecido correlación, esto indica que el ingreso económico no es un determinante para la situación anotada.
Abstract Burden is the psychological result of emotional, physical and social combinations that come from looking after a sick person, especially if it's Alzheimer's. Wage income can affect overload, taking care of a patient generates expenses that the family must endure. This study correlates overhead and salary income in a convenience sample of 100 caregivers from Bucaramanga, using the Zarit Burden Interview (Martin et al., 1996) and Sociodemographic Data Sheet (Cerquera et al., 2012). The results show that most caregivers earn more than the Colombian minimum wage and are overloaded, not establishing correlations, indicating that wage income is not determining for overload.
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The purpose of this study was to produce proper nutrition and foodservice through positive intervention for diet-refusal patients who has difficulties in adaptation to hospital diet, and to contribute to hospital management with the focus of fast recovery. The survey was conducted using questionnaires between July 18 and August 17, 2000. The subjects were consisted of 24 diet-refusal patients who were hospitalized in St. Mary's Hospital except the patients hospitalized for the purpose of operation or pre-therapy tests. Also chart reviews were conducted. The statistical analysis of data was done by SAS/win 6.11 package to determine descriptive analysis and paired t-test and Pearson's correlation. The summary of study results is as follows : 1. Most of the subjects was receiving chemotherapy. The leading place for offering private food was from patient's home. Subjects worried about delayed recovery from illness due to nutritional problems caused by extreme fasting. The problems were in order of anorexia, nausea and vomiting during therapy process. 52.4% of subjects ate hospital diet after positive intervention. 2. Major reasons of hospital diet-refusal patients' dissatisfation were in order of expeness, dissatisfation, serum total protein levels were significantly lower(p<.05). 3. Serum Alb(p<.05), Hb(p<.05), Hct(p<.05) and TLC(p<.001) levels showed significantly negative correlations with fasting duration. With these results, it is concluded that a major cause of malnutrition among patients is to last fasting.