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