Oliveira, Déborah Cristina deCarvalho, Gisele Souza Fontanini deStella, Florindo [UNESP]Higa, Celina Matiko HoriD'Elboux, Maria José2014-05-272014-05-272011-04-01Texto e Contexto Enfermagem, v. 20, n. 2, p. 234-240, 2011.0104-07071980-265Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/72355We evaluated the quality of life related to health and work overloads among 126 caregivers to patients at two geriatric outpatient clinics of a university hospital, as well as the association between overloads and demographic and clinical variables, using an exploratory, descriptive, cross sectional and quantitative approach. The Zarit Burden Interview, a socio-demographic and clinical characterization instrument, was used to assess perceived workloads and the Medical Outcomes Study Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) was used to assess quality of life related of health. Descriptive, comparative, correlative, and multivariate data analyses were carried out. There was significant difference between two outpatient caregiver workloads; all socio-demographic aspects and variables related to care were associated to worsening at least one dimension of the SF-36; frequent illnesses among caregivers were related to a worsening of their quality of life related to health, demonstrating the wear experienced by caregivers to the elderly in these health care units.234-240engAgedCaregiversQuality of lifeArtigo10.1590/S0104-07072011000200003S0104-07072011000200003WOS:000304708200003Acesso aberto2-s2.0-799609787542-s2.0-79960978754.pdf7964386240653380