Cambio ocupacional y competencia ocupacional de los cuidadores de personas con discapacidad.

Abstract

The research project takes up two concepts typical of the Occupational Therapy area: occupational changes and occupational competence; which allow the recognition of primary problems; as they are: the degree of satisfaction to carry out the work, to participate in own interests, social participation; in the same way, it gives reasons about the need to adopt measures or actions that offer better responses to these problems. The study was carried out with 30 caregivers of people with disabilities located in the municipality of Pamplona - Norte de Santander (Colombia), through a mixed study with sequential explanatory design, with the main purpose of investigating the variables by applying instruments such as : sociodemographic file, Volitional Questionnaire (VQ) and the historical Occupational Performance interview (OPHI-II) about the change of occupation when being a caregiver or at the moment of deciding to be one; in turn, the degree of achievement obtained by himself was determined when analyzing and identifying work overload, lack of support networks; as well as the reasons why he made a mandatory decision or not to pause his life project, due to the demand that the role of being a caregiver exerts and the triggers of some alterations in terms of health conditions.