Sonia Carreño-Moreno

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.

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.