Mashayekhi Fatemeh, Pilevarzadeh Motahareh, Rafati Foozieh
Jiroft university of Medical Sciences, Jiroft, Iran.
Razi nursing and midwifery college Kerman, Kerman, Iran.
Mater Sociomed. 2015 Oct;27(5):333-6. doi: 10.5455/msm.2015.27.333-336. Epub 2015 Oct 5.
Chronic renal failure is among the chronic disease which due to persistence of the disease and long treatment process has various effects on the physiological, psychological, functional ability, lifestyle changes, and independence status of the patient and his family. This may result in the burden feeling in caregivers. According to the importance of the subject, this study is to assess the level of caregiver burden in caregivers of hemodialysis patients.
This is a cross-sectional analytical descriptive study that was conducted in 2014 on the caregivers of hemodialysis patients. Research instruments were consisted of two parts: demographic data check list and caregiver burden questionnaire. Data were analyzed by SPSS statistical software and Pearson correlation coefficient tests. A p value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
In this study, 72.5% of caregivers reported moderate to severe levels of caregiver burden. A significant relationship was observed between gender of the patient with caregiver burden score of (p=0.031) and type of the income with caregiver burden score of (p=0.000). Caregivers of male patients and patients with inadequate income had a higher caregiver burden score.
Our results showed that more than half of the caregivers of hemodialysis patients had moderate to severe levels of caregiver burden, therefore it is worthy that health officials and nurses pay special attention to this issue by communicating with these patients and their caregivers.
慢性肾衰竭属于慢性疾病，由于病程迁延且治疗过程漫长，会对患者及其家庭的生理、心理、功能能力、生活方式变化以及独立状态产生多方面影响。这可能导致照料者产生负担感。鉴于该问题的重要性，本研究旨在评估血液透析患者照料者的照料负担水平。
这是一项于2014年针对血液透析患者照料者开展的横断面分析描述性研究。研究工具包括两部分：人口统计学数据清单和照料负担问卷。数据采用SPSS统计软件进行分析，并进行Pearson相关系数检验。p值小于0.05被视为具有统计学意义。
在本研究中，72.5%的照料者报告有中度至重度的照料负担。观察到患者性别与照料负担得分之间存在显著关系（p = 0.031），收入类型与照料负担得分之间也存在显著关系（p = 0.000）。男性患者和收入不足患者的照料者照料负担得分更高。
我们的研究结果表明，超过一半的血液透析患者照料者有中度至重度的照料负担，因此卫生官员和护士值得通过与这些患者及其照料者沟通，对这一问题给予特别关注。
