Profile of the family of Psychosocial Care Center users: distribution by type of service

Abstract

Objective: To describe the socioeconomic and demographic profile of family caregivers of users of Psychosocial Care Centers type I, II and III. Methods: It is a quantitative, descriptive study, part of the evaluation research of Psychosocial Care Centers in Southern Brazil II in 2011. The participants of this study were 1242 family of users of CAPS. Results: The majority of family are women, whites, aged between 40 to 60 years, with low education and income, married, parents or mothers of users. One can see that socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of family caregivers are distributed similarly between the three modality of rated service (CAPS I, CAPS II and CAPS III). Conclusion: From the family caregivers profile knowledge, it is allowed to propose assistance and more focused support on the characteristics of each group.