[Chronic home-care patients and their primary health care environment].
OBJECTIVE
Describing the primary level of attention to chronic home patients (CHP), their quality or life and the one of their home carers.


METHODS
Descriptive transverse study.


METHODS
Teaching Unit of Family of Sestao (Vizcaya) urban environment.


METHODS
197 CHP patients with subacute, chronic illnesses or in terminal stages or handicapped, that is to say, people who cannot attend the Medical Centre and needing constant home care (longer than 4 weeks) although they do not need to be in hospital at the moment.


RESULTS
A questionnaire made up by the researching group.


METHODS
April-June 1992.


METHODS
The clinical histories and home interviews. Mean age (78 +/- 23) years old; 70% were women; average of health problems of patients (4.2 +/- 4); average of drug consumption by patients (3.6 +/- 4); average of one visit to each patient per two months; 75% did not need derivation. The average age of people looking after them was (58 +/- 28) years old and 77.3% of them were women. Their average QL index was (9 +/- 2.4) out of 10, 9.2% had a QL index between 4 and 7 although there was nobody under 3.


CONCLUSIONS
We have found an old population, mostly women with an average of health problems of (4.24 +/- 4) and who are polymedicated. 9.4 of them are not looked after by anybody. Generally their homes are habitable enough. In 77.3% of the cases the carers are women and 65.6% do not receive any domiciliary help.
Bilbao Curiel
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I
Centro de Salud de Sestao, Vizcaya.
Gastaminza Santacoloma
A M
AM
García García
J A
JA
Quindimil Vázquez
J A
JA
López Rivas
J L
JL
Huidobro Fernández
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L
D000368:Aged; D017028:Caregivers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000451:nursing*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
Los pacientes domiciliarios crónicos y su entorno en atención primaria de salud.