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

Abstract

Introduction: Elderly with disabilities need caregiver’s assistance in their activities of daily living. The caregiver can experience a burden during caring for dependent elderly. The burden can affect the caregiver’s quality of life. Purpose: To measure and test the correlation between dependent elderly’s 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 caregiver’s burden. WHO Quality of Life-BREF was used to assess caregiver’s quality of life. Data were analyzed using spearman’s rank correlation. Results: There were 21 female study subjects. The caregivers ' burden tended to be low in each of the CRA and ZBI domains (mean=8.63±10.730–72.42±10.983). Caregivers’ quality of life tended to be low (mean=49.76±11.962–60.76±11.726). There was a strong and statistically significant correlation between the impact on finance (p=0.000, ρ=-0.678) and the impact on health (p=0.002, ρ=-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, ρ=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.