摘要：The main objective of this investigation is to describe the quality of life of the mental patients’ family caregivers that attended the Neuroscience Institute of the Caribbean in the Hospitalization and external consultation area, during the months of June through September 2009 representing a total of 120. It is about a quantitative descriptive study of cross section, the analysis was based on answering the question, how is the quality of life of the mental patient’s family caregiver?, to answer it was applied the instrument proposed by Betty Ferrell and collaborators, described as instrument to measure the quality of life in its family version (quality of life family version) (QOL), which defines it and makes it operational in the physical, psychological, social and spiritual comforts. The findings allowed to probe how the actions of care that are carried out by the family caregivers have injurious impact in quality of their life, establishing a significant deterioration in the physical and social comforts, to a lesser degree the psychological wellbeing and with an explicative potential that concludes with a spiritual well-being, which did not show affectation. Keywords: quality of life, caregiver, mental disease
