Influencia de la percepción de apoyo y del funcionamiento social en la calidad de vida de pacientes con esquizofrenia y sus cuidadores

Perception of social support and functioning of patients with schizophrenia and their primary caregivers and its relationship to quality of life are described. Forty-five patients and their 45 relatives, treated at the Mental Health Services in Arica, Chile, participated. Both patients and caregivers in the study have a poor perception of social support with regard to extra-family people, as well as a low social integration. However, patients showed adequate capacity to function within their immediate family. Unlike what was found in developed countries, these patients showed moderate levels of quality of life, with a strong relationship with perceptions of the social support they receive from family and significant others and the ability to establish and maintain social contacts. Quality of life of primary caregivers is linked to patients´ ability to establish and maintain social contacts within the family group, as in other social instances, such as keeping a job. The results of the study suggest the need to consider the design and application of programs of support for these patients and their caregivers, with the central aim of the social functioning of the above-mentioned patients and their familiar and community integration.

Un repaso a la evolución de los estudios de calidad de los cuidados enfermería.

Desde esta perspectiva del control, la evaluación de la calidad de los cuidados de enfermería es una"vieja idea", ya que hace más de un siglo (1860), Florence Nightingale realizó una serie de informes críticos sobre la calidad asistencial en los hospitales militares británicos. Desde entonces hasta nuestros días, la preocupación de las enfermeras para ofrecer unos cuidados de óptima calidad y poder evaluarlos, para así...

El modelo europeo de calidad

LA FUNDACIÓN EUROPEA para la Gestión de la Calidad, creó el modelo europeo de calidad EFQM (European Foundation Management Quality) con la finalidad de promover que las empresas y organizaciones realizaran sus autoevaluaciones con el modelo de calidad que propone como referencia. El modelo EFQM tiene un doble...