STUDY CORRELATION BETWEEN BURDEN AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF DEPENDENT ELDERLY CAREGIVERS IN KLITREN, YOGYAKARTA

Introduction: Elderly with disabilities need caregiver’s assistance in their activities of daily living. The caregiver can experience a burden during caring for dependent elderly. affect the quality life. Purpose: To measure and test correlation between elderly’s life Klitren Kampong, Gondokusuman District, Yogyakarta Municipality. Method: subjects were primary informal caregivers aged ≥ 18 years an excellent cognitive function elders ADL score <12. Respondents selected using consecutive sampling technique. This is quantitative research cross-sectional study design. Zarit Burden Interview Caregiver Reaction Assessment used to assessing burden. WHO Quality Life-BREF was assess Data analyzed spearman’s rank correlation. Results: There 21 female subjects. ' tended be low each CRA ZBI domains (mean=8.63±10.730–72.42±10.983). Caregivers’ (mean=49.76±11.962–60.76±11.726). strong statistically significant impact on finance (p=0.000, ρ=-0.678) health (p=0.002, ρ=-0.602) environmental domain WHOQoLBREF. schedule psychological WHOQoL-BREF (p=0,000, ρ=0.683). Conclusion: are correlations caregivers’ life, especially specific domains. Caregivers higher have lower