Lorena Chaparro-Díaz

Soporte social con el uso de TIC's para cuidadores familiares de personas con enfermedad crónica

OBJECTIVE The study was aimed at determining the effectiveness of social support using information and communication technology (ICT) for family caregivers regarding people suffering chronic disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS This descriptive exploratory study involving 144 family caregivers for people suffering from chronic disease was carried out in Bogota during 2008 and 2009. It was carried out in three phases: planning and designing ICT strategies (including a pilot trial and selecting the target population), implementing the ICTs in support of the target population and data analysis regarding implementing the ICTs, with a description of the indicators of structure and process for ICT use and results of ICT use in providing social support. G. Hilberts Social support in chronic disease inventory (SSCI) was used for measurements, including the following categories: personal interaction, guide, feedback, tangible help and social interaction. RESULTS ICT-based intervention was effective and proved positive for social support for most family caregivers. While analysing the different categories, the guide, information and instruction and personal interaction received high scores while feedback and social interaction received lower ones. CONCLUSIONS Identifying and designing appropriate ICTs for family caregivers should be continued and supported in different contexts and tools such as internet and on-line social support networks should continue being explored.

Modelo para abordar la carga del cuidado de la enfermedad crónica en Colombia

Resumen es: Con base en la experiencia, investigacion y revision de literatura, se construyo una propuesta de modelo para abordar la carga del cuidado de la enfermed...

Magnitud de efecto de un programa dirigido a cuidadores familiares de personas con enfermedad crónica

Objective. Evaluate the effect to Programa “Cuidando a los Cuidadores” and determine the magnitude of the effect. Method. Quantitative study with pre-experimental approach with 329 family caregivers. The measurers was Caring Ability Inventory (CAI) and Zarit Burden Interview. The data was analyzed with Student’s t test and the effect was calculated using Cohen’s d and coefficient r. Results. The caring ability increased significantly and the effect was moderate. The burden decreased after intervention and the effect was moderate, especially for interpersonal dimension.

Objectives of Sustainable Development and Non Transmissible Chronic Disease

The Agenda Post 2015 to sustainable development proposes the 17 Objectives of Sustainable Development (ODS) that will be the focus of world interest in the next 15 years. Nursing cannot ignore this milestone of global work that will significantly contribute to improve the quality of life of people, families and communities. The International Council of Nursing and Society of Nursing Honor Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) acknowledged that Nursing has a important role to success of those targets. STTI fostered a strategy to give a voice to women and nursing at United Nations, with active participation in world decisions in health subject and consolidated a work group led by the nurse Holly Shaw, from New York 1 ).

Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible y Enfermedad crónica no transmisible

The Agenda Post 2015 to sustainable development proposes the 17 Objectives of Sustainable Development (ODS) that will be the focus of world interest in the next 15 years. Nursing cannot ignore this milestone of global work that will significantly contribute to improve the quality of life of people, families and communities. The International Council of Nursing and Society of Nursing Honor Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) acknowledged that Nursing has a important role to success of those targets. STTI fostered a strategy to give a voice to women and nursing at United Nations, with active participation in world decisions in health subject and consolidated a work group led by the nurse Holly Shaw, from New York 1 ).

Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável e Doença crônica não transmissível

The Agenda Post 2015 to sustainable development proposes the 17 Objectives of Sustainable Development (ODS) that will be the focus of world interest in the next 15 years. Nursing cannot ignore this milestone of global work that will significantly contribute to improve the quality of life of people, families and communities. The International Council of Nursing and Society of Nursing Honor Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) acknowledged that Nursing has a important role to success of those targets. STTI fostered a strategy to give a voice to women and nursing at United Nations, with active participation in world decisions in health subject and consolidated a work group led by the nurse Holly Shaw, from New York 1 ).

Carga de la enfermedad crónica para los sujetos implicados en el cuidado

Objective: to determine the meaning given to the concept of burden of chronic non-communicable disease among patients, family caregivers, health care professionals and health service institutions. Methodology: a systematic review conducted using the following databases: LILACS, Sage, Willey Online Library, Scopus, Bireme, Scielo, ScienceDirect, PubMed, Proquest and Cuiden. Results: a total of 538 papers were found, 58 of which were selected for analysis. These papers formed three categories: physical burden, psychosocial burden and additional financial effort. Conclusions: the meaning of the burden of chronic disease is built by patients and their caregivers on the basis of their experience and the effects of the illness on their private life, i.e. the impact at the personal or family levels. Health professionals and institutions acknowledge the importance of the experience of the disease for the patient and family, but they both give priority to its economic impact at an institutional and health system level.

Caracterización del talento humano en salud que atiende a personas con enfermedad crónica: construcción de una encuesta

The objective of this work, is provide conceptual elements that constitute an integrated vision of care conditions required by the human talent in health HTH) that caters to people with chronic disease (CD) and their families, and that are translated into a tool for gathering information of survey type that allow characterization. This research was conducted in three phases: 1) Review of the literature. 2) Structuring a proposed survey 3) Refinement of the final version of the survey. As results, based on the conceptual framework it was possible to reach a comprehensive vision that served as the basis for the development of a survey to identify the conditions of HTH to care for people with chronic illness and their families. This instrument, called GCPC-A-THS (in Spanish), contains 37 items distributed in 6 additional dimensions that include aspects of care such as: sociodemographic variables of HTH, caring ability, information and communication technologies (ICTs) as a means of support to care, continuity, security and also includes some items related to the level of professional satisfaction. The work done made it possible to achieve a comprehensive view of the characteristics and conditions required by the HTH for care to people with chronic illness and their families.