Comparative study on the burden of caregivers of patients with chronic renal failure on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) and automated peritoneal dialysis (APD)

Abstract

Objective: To determine the differences in caregiver burden in patients with chronic renal failure undergoing renal replacement therapy in CAPD and APD. Material and methods: It is an analytical, non-experimental, comparative, cross-sectional, prospective study; with random selection and systematically assigned controls. People who perform the role of caregivers in patients with chronic renal failure on peritoneal dialysis, with renal replacement therapy in the modalities of CAPD and APD integrated into the peritoneal dialysis program in Campeche from January to July 2022, with a total of 60 primary caregivers. The Zarit test questionnaire and the caregiver effort index questionnaire were applied. Contribution: The following overload results were found for the CAPD caregiver of 12.9% and for APD 13.8%, in mild overload for CAPD 22.6% and for APD 10.3% and without overload CAPD 75.9% and APD 65.4%. The predominant gender of the caregiver was female for both modalities of peritoneal dialysis that correspond as follows CAPD 77.4% are women for APD women 75%. The average age found for CAPD was 46.87 and for DPA 45.55, with an average for CAPD and DPA respectively of 31 and 29 years.