STUDY CORRELATION BETWEEN BURDEN AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF DEPENDENT ELDERLY CAREGIVERS IN KLITREN, YOGYAKARTA

Abstract

Introduction: Elderly with disabilities need caregivers assistance in their activities of daily
living. The caregiver can experience a burden during caring for dependent elderly. The burdencan affect the caregivers quality of life.
Purpose: To measure and test the correlation between dependent elderlys caregiver burden
and quality of life in Klitren Kampong, Gondokusuman District, Yogyakarta Municipality.
Method: The subjects were primary informal caregivers aged ? 18 years with an excellent cognitive function caring for the elders with an ADL score <12. Respondents were selected using the consecutive sampling technique. This is quantitative research with a cross-sectional study design. Zarit Burden Interview and Caregiver Reaction Assessment were used to assessing the caregivers burden. WHO Quality of Life-BREF was used to assess caregivers quality of life. Data were analyzed using spearmans rank correlation.
Results: There were 21 female study subjects. The caregivers ' burden tended to be low ineach of the CRA and ZBI domains (mean=8.6310.73072.4210.983). Caregivers quality of life tended to be low (mean=49.7611.96260.7611.726). There was a strong and statistically significant correlation between the impact on finance (p=0.000, ?=-0.678) and the impact on health (p=0.002, ?=-0.602) on CRA with the environmental domain of WHOQoLBREF. There was a strong and statistically significant correlation between the impact of the schedule domain on CRA with the psychological domain of WHOQoL-BREF (p=0,000, ?=0.683).
Conclusion: There are significant correlations between caregivers burden and quality of life, especially in specific domains. Caregivers with a higher burden have a lower quality of life.