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Abstract
The increase in the older population, increases proportionally chronic diseases they can suffer. This creates a condition of dependency and vulnerability as one of the family members must assume the role of informal caregiver. Defog this role involves experiencing guilt, feelings of helplessness and resignation, sleep disturbances among others. Given this finding, Have been designed interventions for informal caregivers from the late 70s to the present, aimed at reducing the discomfort associated care, highlighting the effectiveness of psycho-educational and psychological interventions Likewise, interventions that use cognitive-behavioral model for the effects on the change in perception of selfefficacy and changing the disfunctional thoughts that keeps the caregiver in the performance of their role. However, studies so far have been directed towards the understanding of the disease and its care. there are studies in relation to stress considering carefully adapted to internal, external and contextual understanding discomfort of caring factors, however, are few considering the increase of this problem.
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