Relationship between well-being, quality of life and hope in family caregivers of schizophrenic people.

OBJECTIVE

To measure and correlate the degree of psychological well-being, quality of life, and dispositional hope in family caregivers of schizophrenic people.

METHODS

Descriptive cross-sectional study conducted with 117 relatives of schizophrenic people. We applied a questionnaire of sociodemographic variables was applied, and the instruments World Health Organization 5-Item Well-Being (WHO-5), World Health Organization Quality of Life Abbreviated (WHOQOL-Bref), and Dispositional Hope Scale. We used The Kruskal Wallis, Jonckheere-Terpstra, and Spearman correlation tests at the level α <0.05.

RESULTS

It was possible to observe statistical significance when comparing schooling and age with Disposal Hope; and when comparing the scales used.

CONCLUSION

The study considered that well-being, quality of life, and hope are variables that negatively influence caregiver burden, suggesting schooling as an inverse correlation variable with Dispositional Hope.