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Revista de la Universidad Industrial de Santander. Salud
Print version ISSN 0121-0807On-line version ISSN 2145-8464
Abstract
GARCIA-RODRIGUEZ, Laura Catherin; CARRENO-MORENO, Sonia and CHAPARRO-DIAZ, Lorena. Instruments for the measurement of informal caregiver burden in patients with chronic disease: Psychometric review. Rev. Univ. Ind. Santander. Salud [online]. 2023, vol.55, e62. Epub Dec 01, 2023. ISSN 0121-0807. https://doi.org/10.18273/saluduis.55.e:23005.
Introduction:
Caregivers of patients with chronic disease experience overload when carrying out continuous care tasks. In the world there are different instruments that measure this overload, in the Latin American context different instruments have been validated.
Objetive:
To evaluate the methodological quality of the psychometric properties of the instruments that measure caregiver burden in the Latin American.
Methodology:
Systematic psychometric review. The search included the combination of 3 aspects: validation studies; language: Spanish, Portuguese or English, and place of validation: Latin American.
Results:
A total of 24 articles were identified and included 10 instruments. The language of the articles with the highest representation was Spanish (n = 15). The country with the highest number of validation studies was Brazil (n = 15). The instrument with the highest number of validations was the Zarit Survey (n = 11).
Conclusion:
The identified instruments have methodological quality; however, future research is necessary to evaluate the missing psychometric properties, especially content validity
Keywords : Caregivers; Burden; Chronic Disease, Validation Study; Psychometric; Latin America.