Publications by authors named "Belen Gutierrez Baena"
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- Caring for dependent individuals can harm family caregivers' physical and mental health, making resilience crucial for managing stress and challenges in their role.
- The study aimed to identify factors that affect caregiver resilience, using a sample of 172 family caregivers in Spain, and found that preparedness significantly predicts resilience levels.
- Results indicate that higher preparedness and resilience lead to lower feelings of burden, highlighting the need to enhance training and support for family caregivers to improve their well-being and care quality.
Background: Many caregivers are insufficiently prepared, and little is known about measures that can be employed to enhance their preparedness.
Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the factors associated with caregiver preparedness and establish a predictive model including the relationship between preparedness, burden, resilience and anxiety.
Design: A cross-sectional design was used.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a series of biopsychosocial repercussions among nursing professionals. The impossibility of anticipating the events, the numerous deaths, the excessive workload, the lack of personal health and the necessary means of protection made it difficult to regulate the impact and the elaboration of grief to the point of becoming, on many occasions, a traumatic grief whose physical and psychological manifestations are becoming more and more evident. The main objective of this research was to develop a scale for a group of symptoms based on professional traumatic grief.
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- The study aims to test the Spanish version of the Caregiver Preparedness Scale (CPS) and assess the preparedness levels of family caregivers in Spain.
- Researchers used a descriptive and validation approach, selecting 171 caregivers through a purposive sampling method and rigorously adapting the scale for cultural context.
- Results showed that the Spanish CPS is reliable (Cronbach's α of 0.89) and valid, with caregivers reporting average preparedness levels, feeling more equipped for physical care than for emotional or spiritual support.