title: [Burden among caregivers of patients with Parkinson disease].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Parkinson disease (EPI) patients often require being assisted by others. These caregivers are exposed to a decrease in their quality of Ufe.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To explore Parkinson disease patient features associated with a greater burden among their caregivers.
  
  
  METHODS
  Fifty one patients with Parkinson disease (aged 67 ± 12 years, 29 men, with 8 ± 5 years of disease) and their caregivers, were studied. Patients were assessed with the Unified Parkinson Disease Rating Scale III, the Hoehn & Yahr stage standardization, Parkinson s minimental test, the neuropsychiatric inventory and the Beck Depression Inventory (IDB). The Zarit Burden Interview (ESZ) was applied to caregivers.
  
  
  RESULTS
  According to IDB, 45% of patients whose caregivers presented little or no burden had a depression, compared to 78% of those whose caregivers had modérate or intense burden. (p < 0.01). The ESZ score of caregivers correlated significantly with Parkinson patients' age, IDB and axial involvement in the UPDRS-III (correlation coefficients ofOAp < 0.01, 0.6p < 0.01 and 0.46 p < 0.01, respectively).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Motor alterations, cognitive impairment and most importantly depression of patients with Parkinson disease are deteminants of burden for their caregivers.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Trastornos del Movimiento, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Benavides
authors.forename: Daniela
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Alburquerque
authors.forename: Pedro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chaná-Cuevas
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017281:Cost of Illness; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000451:nursing*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology; D012307:Risk Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires