Vol. 4, Issue 6, Part A (2018)

Abstract
Objective: To assess Quality of living and burden among caregivers of dependent patients, determine the relationship between Quality of living and burden among caregivers of dependent patients, determine the association of Quality of living and burden among caregivers of dependent patients with selected variables of Patients’s caregivers admitted in M.M.I.M.S & R Hospital Mullana, Ambala, Haryana. Methods: Non Experimental research approach with correlational research design was adopted on the 100 caregivers of dependent patients suffering from chronic illness and admitted in M.M.I.M.S & R Hospital Mullana, Ambala, Haryana. Purposive sampling technique was used and data was collected by WHO-QOL Questionnaire, Modified caregivers burden scale. Result: The result showed that Majority (89%) of the caregivers had little or no burden as a caregiver of dependent patients. The majority of caregivers (82%) were having poor quality of living. Five areas of quality of living such as Global, Physical, Psychological, Social and Environmental shows Mean and Standard Deviation of Quality of living scores as, 5.44+1.38, 22.86+4.33,19.5,19.17+3.81, 10.77+1.91 and, 21.00+5.14 respectively. There is negative correlation between quality of living and burden of Caregivers of dependent patients (-0.566). There was significant association of quality of living with the average expenditure for health services in a month (3.040). The education status, place of living, occupation, family income were having the significant association of quality of living of caregivers with caregiver’s variables by t and ANOVA test (5.006, 2.64, 3.573, 11.96) respectively. There was no significant association of Burden of Caregivers with any of the caregiver’s Variables at 0.05 level of significance. Conclusion: There is negative correlation between quality of living and burden of Caregivers of dependent patients. It indicates that when the burden score increases the quality of living decreases. It concludes that education status, place of living, occupation, family income were having the significant association of quality of living of caregivers with caregiver’s variables by t and ANOVA test (5.006,2.64,3.573,11.96) respectively. This indicates that there was no significant association of Burden of Caregivers with any of the caregiver’s Variables at 0.05 level of significance.