Psychosocial assessment for caregivers of patients served in palliative care strategy for Family Health

• Grant number: 12/22780-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: February 01, 2013
• End date: January 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Nursing - Public Health Nursing
• Principal Investigator: Silmara Meneguin
• Grantee: Rafaela Ribeiro
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina (FMB). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Botucatu. Botucatu , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Caregivers have become essential elements in the context of health care and important in the process of comprehensive care to patients. However, the attention of health professionals still prioritizes, in most cases, the patient rather than the identification of problems and psychosocial needs of caregivers. This is a descriptive, exploratory, cross-sectional, and qualitative-quantitative aims to evaluate the overall wellbeing of caregivers of patients in palliative care, attended by staff of the Family Health Strategy, in Botucatu. The study will be conducted in the primary care network of the municipality and the sample will be convenient. Thus, we used a questionnaire consisting of three parts, the first identification data of the participants, the second by General Comfort Questionnaire (GCQ), and finally the third open question. Qualitative data will be organized and analyzed by adopting the strategic methodology of the Collective Subject Discourse (DSC). (AU)