Abstract

FERNANDEZ TORRALBO, Carmen María; CUETO TORRES, Irene  and  GRANDE GASCON, Maria Luisa. Differences in burden of care associated with gender. Ene. [online]. 2020, vol.14, n.1, 1416.  Epub Nov 09, 2020. ISSN 1988-348X.

Informal care is a system of care that supports an increasingly aging and dependent society. It is known that it is carried out mostly by women, but it had not been studied if statistically these suffer more burden associated with care than men. Our objective is to study the difference in the subjective load associated with care. To do this, we carried out a search in bibliographic databases of articles that studied the burden associated with gender, from which we obtained five articles. As results we obtained that there is not only a greater number of women who care, but that they experience greater burden at all levels such as the psychological burden, tension associated with care and difficulties to carry out the care task, depressive symptoms and changes negative in your life because of care. There is still a long way to go in research, but the basis is that health professionals know our importance in addressing problems with a gender perspective.

Keywords : gender and health; nursing care; primary care nursing.

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