[en] Introduction: During the last few years, there has been an ageing of the population, which lead to a rise in morbidity and in the number of people who need assistance to carry out basic and instrumental daily life tasks. The most common chronic degenerative affections resulting from this ageing of the population are cerebrovascular accidents and dementia. These affections cause physical and psychological changes and can lead to great disabilities and dependency for the people who suffer them, generating a rise in the demand of long-term caretaking. The person who assumes the tasks of tending, helping and supporting these dependent people for most of the day is usually the primary caretaker, who can become susceptible to suffering from overwork (with physical, mental and spiritual distress, economic struggles, social isolation and even deterioration of the relationship between the caretaker and the recipient of the nursing). The intervention of the nurses proves fundamental not only in the nursing of the dependent person but also to help the primary caretakers, as they are an important part of the help that prevents both the need of admitting the patient in a nursing center and the appearance of negative effects on the caretaker's health. Objectives: To determine the relationship between the level of dependence of the patient and the main informal caregiver's burden in a group of patients users of the public day centers in Ferrol: Centro de Coral Seoane, Centro de día de Caranza, Centro de día As Telleiras, Centro de día Esteiro y Centro de día de la Red Pública de Alzheimer de Ferrol. Methodology: A quantitative, observational, descriptive, cross-sectional and retrospective study will be carried out to determine the relationship between the level of dependence of the patient and the main informal caregiver's burden. The study sample will be formed by the patients users of the public day care centers of Ferrol and their respective caregivers, using the Barthel Index, Global Deterioration Scale and the Zarit Caregiver Burden Interview.

[gl] Introdución: Durante os últimos anos, produciuse un envellecemento da poboación, o que comporta un aumento da morbilidade e do número de persoas que precisan asistencia para levar a cabo actividades básicas e instrumentais da vida diaria. As principais enfermidades crónico-dexenerativas derivadas deste envellecemento da poboación son os accidentes cerebrovasculares e as demencias. Estas xeran cambios físicos, psicolóxicos e poden provocar unha grande incapacidade e dependencia nas persoas que as sofren, o que implica un incremento da demanda de coidados de longa duración. A persoa que asume a responsabilidade na atención, apoio e coidados é a maior parte do día o/a coidador/a principal, que pode ser susceptible de padecer sobrecarga (malestar físico, psicolóxico, espiritual, económico, social ou problemas na relación entre coidador/a e receptor dos coidados). É fundamental a intervención de enfermaría non só no coidado da persoa dependente, senón dos/as coidadores/as, xa que son un elemento importante que ademais de previr a necesidade de asistencia a centros para coidados a longo prazo tamén prevén a aparición de efectos negativos na saúde. Obxetivos: Determinar a relación entre o nivel de dependencia do doente e a sobrecarga do/a coidador/a informal principal nun grupo de pacientes usuarios dos centros de día de carácter público de Ferrol: Centro de Coral Seoane, Centro de día de Caranza, Centro de día As Telleiras, Centro de día Esteiro y Centro de día de la Red Pública de Alzheimer de Ferrol. Metodoloxía: Realizarase un estudo cuantitativo, observacional, descriptivo, de corte transversal e retrospectivo para determinar a relación entre o nivel de dependencia do doente e a sobrecarga do/a coidador/a informal principal. A mostra de estudo estará formada polos doentes usuarios dos centros de día públicos de Ferrol y os/ seus respectivos/as coidadores/as, usando o Índice de Barthel, a Escala de Deterioro Global de Reisberg e a Escala de Sobrecarga del cuidador de Zarit.