Profile of caregivers of Parkinson's disease patients and burden measured by Zarit Scale Analysis of potential burden-generating factors and their correlation with disease severity.

Unlabelled: Parkinson's disease (PD) promotes burden among patients and caregivers.

Objective: To analyze whether disease severity (UPDRS and Karnofsky index), total disease duration, patient cognitive status (MMSE), presence of other diseases, patient age, socioeconomic conditions (ABEP2015), living together with patient, total time caregiving, weekly hours of care and presence of assistance from other caregivers are correlated with, and influence statistically, the degree of caregiver burden measured by the Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI).

Methods: After ethics Committee approval, patients and respective caregivers were recruited.