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Abstract This study aims to characterize the sociodemographic, economical and clinical aspects and analyze the mental state of caregivers of elderly people on renal dialysis. The cross-section, descriptive, quantitative study was conducted in 2017, on a dialysis treatment unity with 91 elderly patients. Of these, 80.22% were family members, 68.13% were women, 45.05% had more than eight years of education, 71.43% did not have arterial hypertension, and they had an average age of 50.37 years and mean time in renal dialysis and care for the elderly by the caregiver of 36.60±39.65 and 72.70±109.50 months, respectively. Three categorial variables significantly influenced the caregivers’ mental state scores: type of caregiver, level of education and occurrence of arterial hypertension. The variable coefficient was 17.56%, with a minimum score of 10.0 points and a maximum score of 29.0% points. Mental state was influenced by the type of caregiver, level of education and occurrence of arterial hypertension.

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