Methods: A descriptive-correlational design was selected. The population will be integrated by female IC of functional dependent OAs, who cares for the realization of daily activities, residents in the city of Saltillo, Coahuila. The sampling will be by convenience and the sample size will be calculated by the NQuery Advisor statistic package. In order to know the state of emotional health, the Depression Scale of the Center for Epidemiological Studies (CESD) of Radloff and the inventory of trati-state anxiety (IDARE) Spanish version of the STAIN (State Trat Anxiety Inventary) of R. Gorsuch, R. Lushene and Ch. Spieldberger. To meet the IC sexual health state the questionnaire of sexual function in women will be applied (Sexual Functioning Questionnaire Women, SFQ-W-Karen Syrjala 2000).
Results: The results will be analyzed with SPSS 24 (Statistical Package for Social Sciences). Descriptive statistics (measures of central tendency and dispersion) and inferential statistics (correlations), parametric or non-parametric, will be used according to the results of the normality test.
Conclusion: The results will be compared with the literature reviewed, identifying concordance and differences. The importance of the results in the search of the improvement of the clinical practice of nursing in the field of the emotional and sexual health of the IC will be discussed, seeking to contribute to the base of the nursing knowledge of the development, implementation and measurement of interventions for mitigate the impact on health and quality of life of the IC.