Introduction:

With the aging population and longer survival of people with chronic illnesses and disabilities, the number of dependent care, accompanied by increased overhead for carers, who need to develop knowledge and skills for the care of the elderly dependent.

Objective:

To evaluate effectiveness of an educational intervention on caregiver burden institutionalized elderly dependent.

Methods:

Quasi-experimental study with 38 caregivers of dependent elderly institutionalized in the House of Grandparents of Pinar del Rio municipality during 2015, developed in three phases (identification of perceived overload, intervention, evaluation). The information was obtained by the Zarit scale applied before and after the intervention, which classifies the caregiver: No overload, overload light and heavy overload. Descriptive analysis of the information included absolute frequencies and percentages for qualitative variables were performed; means, medians, standard deviations, confidence intervals (95 % for quantitative variables). To study the effectiveness of the intervention results Zarit scale were compared before and after surgery using the exact Wilcoxon test for paired data. Lower levels of significance were set at 0.05.

Results:

The 92.10 % of caregivers were women, 92.10 % were children, before intervention 100.00 % of caregivers reported overload care after intervene; the 76.32 % perceived no overloading.

Conclusion:

The educational intervention for caregivers of dependent elderly institutionalized was effective, by decreasing the perception significativante caregiver burden.

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