A Study to assess Care Givers Burden among Primary Care Givers in Selected Hospitals, U.K

Caregiver is an individual who has the responsibility of meeting the physical, psychological needs of the dependent patient. As the disease progresses, it carries with it a tremendous increase of burden on the caregiver who does the care giving. Care giving has been identified as a basic component of human nature and a primary element of close relationship.

1. Assess the care givers burden among primary care givers. 2. Categorize the range of four dimensions of care givers burden tool in three areas.3. Compare the four dimensions of care givers burden among three areas. 4. Compare the level of care givers burden among three areas. 5. Associate the level of care givers burden with selected demographic variables.

The investigator has selected descriptive research design & convenience sampling technique is a type of non-probability sampling was found for this study & the study was conducted among of 218 care givers in three areas.

The obtained data was analyzed and interpreted by descriptive and inferential statistics. The finding reveals that economical burden (55.1%) is high than other dimensions such as physical, emotional, and social, among three areas. This study concludes that care givers burden of medically ill patients (89.5%) were more than Pediatric and psychiatric patients caregivers. In Medical surgical & Pediatrics care givers there is no significant association between any of the variables. In psychiatric care givers there is significant association between short tempered, number of days hospitalized and remaining variables were not found to be significant at P 0.001 level