“Estrategias de afrontamiento y sobrecarga en el cuidador de niños con discapacidad intelectual”

Abstract

The present investigation had as objective to determine the influence of the coping strategies and the overload of the caregiver of children with intellectual disability of the Foundation of Special Children of San Miguel. Coping strategies are a set of cognitive and behavioral processes that are developed in situations of threat or stressors; the evaluation of coping strategies was done through the Coping Strategies Inventory, which evaluates eight types of coping strategies. On the other part, the caregiver's overload is the emotional and physical exhaustion in the presence of stressful situations related to the care of a person. The Caretaker Overload scale provides a global result, allowing you get the respective overload levels. Applied to 50 caregivers of children with intellectual disabilities. For the data analysis, the SPSS statistical program was used through the X2 test, obtaining an exact chi square significance (0.270> 0.05), checking the independence of the variables, therefore, there is no relationship between the variables. However, the relationship between caregiver overload and coping strategies of cognitive restructuring and problem solving was identified.