The responsibilities of caring for a disabled family member may cause caregivers to develop risky behaviors for caregiver's health. Therefore, we aimed to examine the relationship between caregiver burdens and healthy lifestyle behaviors of family members caring for a disabled child.
In the study, family members living in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, and caring for a disabled person under the age of 24 were evaluated. Caregiver burden was evaluated with the Caregiver Burden Scale and healthy lifestyle behaviors were evaluated with the Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Scale II. The fact that there is no earlier study on caregivers of disabled people in Uzbekistan and no research in the literature examining the relationship between caregiving burden and healthy lifestyle behaviors in individuals with disabled children, make this study unique.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
155
Caregiver burden and healthy lifestyle behaviors were evaluated.
Karadeniz Technical University
Trabzon, Turkey (Türkiye)
Socio-demographic information
Age, height, body weight, employment status, income status, marital status
Time frame: Two months
Number of child
Number of healthy and disabled children
Time frame: Two months
Assessment of the child age
Age
Time frame: Two months
Assessment of the child
Gender
Time frame: Two months
Caregiver Burden Scale
The scale has a Likert-type rating ranging from 0 to 4 as "never, rarely, sometimes, quite often, almost always". A minimum of 0 and a maximum of 88 points can be obtained from the scale. The items in the scale are generally related to the social and emotional domain, and a high score indicates a high level of distress.
Time frame: Two months
Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Scale II
The scale is scored as "never (1)-regularly (4)". The lowest score for the whole scale is 52 and the highest score is 208. The high scores obtained from the scale indicate how high the individual applies the specified health behaviors.
Time frame: Two months
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